Issue - meetings

With reference to article 10 of the minute of meeting of the Education and Children’s Services Committee of 16 November 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Education and Children’s Services which outlined the costs for the options approved by the aforementioned Committee for providing subsidised transport to school for pupils attending the new Lochside Academy from August 2018.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       agree to include a budget provision of the amount outlined in the report to the 2018/19 Public Transport Unit budget to cover the estimated cost of this provision, subject to the annual budget setting process;

(b)       agree a further amount, as outlined in the report to the 2019/20 budget of the Public Transport Unit to cover the fact that this will be the first full financial year of the transport provision, subject to the annual budget setting process; and

(c)       otherwise note the contents of this report.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.