Issue - meetings

(i)        to approve the schemes listed in the appendices as the detailed proposals for expenditure within budget heading;

(ii)       to instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services to implement the detailed programme;

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services to undertake or instruct appropriate procedures in accordance with the council’s procurement regulations to procure the works referred to in the exempt appendices for the roads capital budget programme for the financial year 2019/20 and award contracts relating thereto;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services in consultation with the Chief Officer - Commissioning to award contracts on receipt of a valid tender submission subject to necessary funding in the approved capital budgets;

(v)       to approve as estimated expenditure in terms of the procurement regulation 4.1.1, in order for work to commence on the capital programme, the sums shown against each heading of the roads capital budget for the financial year 2019/20 set out in exempt appendices to this report; and

(vi)      to note that approval of the procurement of these works contracts with estimated expenditure of £250,000 and above is sought within the Procurement Workplans and Business Cases report also presented to this committee.

With reference to article 29 of the minute of meeting of the Communities, Housing and Infrastructure Committee of 24 January 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer which outlined the proposed roads and transportation programme from the approved capital budgets for 2019/20.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       approve the schemes listed in the appendices as the detailed proposals for expenditure within budget heading;

(b)       instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services to implement the detailed programme;

(c)       instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services to undertake or instruct appropriate procedures in accordance with the council’s procurement regulations to procure the works referred to in the exempt appendices for the roads capital budget programme for the financial year 2019/20 and award contracts relating thereto;

(d)       instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services in consultation with the Chief Officer - Commissioning to award contracts on receipt of a valid tender submission subject to necessary funding in the approved capital budgets;

(e)       approve as estimated expenditure in terms of the procurement regulation 4.1.1, in order for work to commence on the capital programme, the sums shown against each heading of the roads capital budget for the financial year 2019/20 set out in exempt appendices to this report; and

(f)        note that approval of the procurement of these works contracts with estimated expenditure of £250,000 and above is sought within the Procurement Workplans and Business Cases report also presented to this committee.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.