Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services seeking approval to spend the £550,000 which was transferred from the Leader’s Capital Programme to the Children’s Services and Learning Capital Programme on 14th March 2012, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 12/13 9219)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, capital expenditure of £77,000 in 2012/13, £462,000 in 2013/14 and £11,000 in 2014/15 for the provision of additional school playing facilities and associated ground works at the former Civil Service Sports Ground.

(ii)  To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services and Learning  to determine the form and content of consultation on the preferred option for the refurbishment of the former Civil Service Sports Ground.

(iii)  To delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services and Learning following the consultation referred to at (ii) above, to determine the final layout and refurbishment of the former Civil Service Sports Ground and, within the approved budget, to do anything necessary to deliver the works necessary to bring the site back into educational use.