Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)              to approve the “Roads Winter Service Plan 2022/2023” (Appendix 1)

(ii)             to delegate authority to the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services to, following consultation with the Chief Officer – Finance, continue to deliver the Winter Maintenance Service;

(iii)            to instruct the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to hold an induction meeting on a date to be arranged, for new and existing elected members on the winter service process; and

(iv)           to instruct the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to engage, prior to the production of future years' Roads Winter Service Plans, with active travel groups including Aberdeen Cycle Forum and Grampian Cycling Partnership to confirm that the main cycling commuting routes agreed in 2013 and listed in appendix C section G are still the main routes used.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services, which presented the Road Winter Service Plan for the coming winter and to highlight any significant changes.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)          approves the “Roads Winter Service Plan 2022/2023” (Appendix 1);

(b)          delegates authority to the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services to, following consultation with the Chief Officer – Finance, continue to deliver the Winter Maintenance Service; and

(c)          instructs the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to hold an induction meeting on a date to be arranged, for new and existing elected members on the winter service process.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)            to instruct the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to engage, prior to the production of future years' Roads Winter Service Plans, with active travel groups including Aberdeen Cycle Forum and Grampian Cycling Partnership to confirm that the main cycling commuting routes agreed in 2013 and listed in appendix C section G are still the main routes used; and

(ii)        to otherwise approve the recommendations.