Issue - meetings

Councillor Dempster submits a report that seeks to secure Cabinet approval to submit to Partnerships for Schools the Final Business Case for the Council’s Building Schools for the Future, Rushey Mead School project and to obtain the necessary authority to progress the project.  Cabinet is asked to approve recommendations set out in Paragraph 2.2 of the report.

A minute extract from the meeting of the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee on 31 January 2011 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Dempster submitted a report that sought Cabinet’s approval to submit to Partnerships for Schools the Final Business Case for the Council’s Building Schools for the Future, Rushey Mead School project and to obtain the necessary authority to progress the project.  Thanks were given to everyone who had worked extremely hard, at very short notice to deliver the project.

Councillor Dempster stated that the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee had endorsed the report’s recommendations at its meeting on 31 January 2011.

RESOLVED:

                        that Cabinet:

1)     approves the submission of the Final Business Case as presented in the report,

2)     agrees to release the capital funds of up to £19.607m made available by Council;

3)     authorises the Strategic Director Children, in consultation with the Cabinet Lead, to take such decisions as she thinks fit to implement the scheme within the scope of the Final Business Case; and

4)     authorises the Chief Finance Officer to submit a Section 151 Officer letter of support for release with the Final Business Case, reflecting the contract proposals, in a form suitable for Partnerships for School’s approval purposes.