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(i)         to delegate authority to the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development, following consultation with the Head of Commercial and Procurement Services, to undertake a tender process for the procurement and thereafter award of contracts for supported bus services in Kingswells, Airyhall/Craigiebuckler and Dubford/Denmore as detailed in this report and in Appendix 2;

(ii)        to approve the total estimated expenditure for the award of these contracts as detailed in Appendix 2;

(iii)       to instruct the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development to include the budgetary spend for supported bus services as detailed in Appendix 2 to this report for the 2018/19 financial year. Any additional funding will be subject to the Council forecast out-turn delivering a balanced budget for the year.  If this is not the case then the item will be referred to the budget process; and

(iv)       to request the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development to report to the Communities Housing and Infrastructure Committee in May 2018 with regards to the position of operating services under s22 Community Bus Permit and to update on the performance of all supported bus services.

With reference to article 20 of the minute of the Council meeting of 21 June 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure which provided details of the identified gaps in the public transport network in Aberdeen and how these gaps measure against the Council’s assessment criteria for determining what transport is required.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee -

(a)       delegate authority to the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development, following consultation with the Head of Commercial and Procurement Services, to undertake a tender process for the procurement and thereafter award of contracts for supported bus services in Kingswells, Airyhall / Craigiebuckler and Dubford / Denmore as detailed in this report and in Appendix 2;

(b)       approve the total estimated expenditure for the award of these contracts as detailed in Appendix 2;

(c)        instruct the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development to include the budgetary spend for supported bus services as detailed in Appendix 2 to this report for the 2018/19 financial year. Any additional funding will be subject to the Council forecast out-turn delivering a balanced budget for the year.  If this is not the case then the item will be referred to the budget process; and

(d)       request the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development to report to the Communities Housing and Infrastructure Committee in May 2018 with regards to the position of operating services under s22 Community Bus Permit and to update on the performance of all supported bus services.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.