Issue - meetings

To consider the position of the council’s capital budget at the end of the third quarter for 2011/12, based on the ten-year capital programme approved by council assembly in July 2011.

RESOLVED:

1.  That the addition of budgets into the programme, matched by additional funding secured since the last report to cabinet (Appendix C of the report) be approved.

2.  That the current monitoring position for the general fund capital programme 2011-21 and housing investment programme 2011-16 as at 31 December 2011 (Appendices A, B and D of the report) be noted.

3.  That the additions into the programme of budgets relating to existing cabinet decisions and the movement of existing schemes between departments (Appendix C of the report) be noted.

4.  That the addition of £1.3m of additional Department of Education grant funding to the children’s services capital programme be approved and £500,000 of this be allocated for the temporary expansion programme. The allocation of the remaining budget will be subject to a further report to cabinet.

5.  That it be noted that the capital programme 2011-21 will be updated and presented to cabinet for approval in 2012/13 (paragraphs 59 to 60 of the report).