Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Customer and Organisation, detailing the proposed IT Strategy and associated Investment plan.

Report of the Cabinet Member for Customer and Organisation detailing the proposed IT Strategy and associated Investment Plan.

RESOLVED:

(i)  That the identified IT Investment Plan for inclusion in future budgets be approved. For the capital programme this meant an extra £8.530m as follows:

  (a)  the addition of £7.343M to the Customer and Organisation    programme funded by Council Resources and approval to    spend this sum in years 2021/22 to 2024/25 as detailed in    paragraph 24 and 

    (b)  the addition of £1.187M to the HRA programme funded by        Council Resources and approval to spend this sum in years    2021/22 to 2023/25 as detailed in paragraph 24.

(ii)  That the IT Investment Plan approval was sought for a General Fund revenue budget allocation of £4.108M as indicated in paragraph 25 over the period 2021/22 to 2024/25 which would be built into the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy be supported;

(iii)  That the themes identified as the basis of an updated IT Strategy, with delivery supported by the identified investment plans be agreed;

(iv)  That subject to contract review, the ongoing contract for support and maintenance of software to support the Revenues and Benefits service. The overall spend of the contract was expected to be in the region of £1.2m over 6 years, 2 years initially with options to extend be approved. Costs were covered in existing budgets; and

(v)  That authority be delegated to the Executive Director Business Services and Head of IT, following consultation with the Executive Director Finance and Commercialisation and the Cabinet Member for Customer and Organisation plus the Cabinet Member for Finance and Income Generation, to vary the programme subject to changing requirements and new technologies in future years, within the existing and agreed resource allocation.