Issue - meetings

(i)      to note a business case to support participation in Transport Scotland’s   Low Carbon Travel & Transport (LCTT) Challenge Fund which has been approved by Capital Board and Corporate Management Team (CMT);

(ii)     to approve Aberdeen City Council’s participation in the programme;

(iii)    to approve entering into a legal agreement with Transport Scotland for the purpose of funding the project;

(iv)    to approve the creation in the Non-Housing Capital Programme of a new project expenditure budget of £1,479,467 for the low carbon fuelling station at the new AECC, funded by the LCTT grant funding of £1,035,627 and a transfer of £443,840 from the construction inflation budget of the Non-Housing Capital Programme; and

(v)     to note the details of low carbon utilisation in other regions. 

With reference to article 17 of the minute of meeting of the Finance, Policy and Resources Committee of 1 February 2018, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which outlined the outcome of Aberdeen City Council’s funding application to Transport Scotland’s Low Carbon Travel and Transport Challenge Fund to develop a low carbon refuelling station at the city’s new Exhibition Centre and recommended acceptance of the funding as detailed within the report.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       note a business case to support participation in Transport Scotland’s Low Carbon Travel & Transport (LCTT) Challenge Fund which has been approved by Capital Board and Corporate Management Team (CMT);

(b)       approve Aberdeen City Council’s participation in the programme;

(c)       approve entering into a legal agreement with Transport Scotland for the purpose of funding the project;

(d)       approve the creation in the Non-Housing Capital Programme of a new project expenditure budget of £1,479,467 for the low carbon fuelling station at the new AECC, funded by the LCTT grant funding of £1,035,627 and a transfer of £443,840 from the construction inflation budget of the Non-Housing Capital Programme; and

(e)       note the details of low carbon utilisation in other regions.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.