Issue - meetings

1.      That Cabinet delegates approval for award of contracts to the Strategic Director of the Economy and Strategic Director for Finance, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for the Economy and Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Ecology with contracts awarded after the announcement of grant funding in March /April 2024.

2.      That Cabinet notes the contracts will be up to a value of £ 12 m (subject to the size of the PSDSC grant awarded by Salix), but where the total value of the contract will not exceed the combined amount of grant funding received (£5.465m or less) and Council funding available to be allocated to the scheme.

3.      If the current application with Salix is unsuccessful, for Cabinet to confirm the same delegation for future Salix applications up the same value of £ 12 m without returning to Cabinet again for approval. 

Councillor Wesley Harcourt, Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Ecology, stated that this was a joint report with Councillor Andrew Jones, Cabinet Member for the Economy. This report requested to delegate authority to the named directors, in consultation with Councillor Jones and himself for award of contracts to enable the expediting of a major decarbonisation capital investment programme of works that would be part funded by grant.

Councillor Harcourt added that thetimeframe forspending theentirety of thegrant was very short and, without the action being recommended in this report, there was a risk of not being able to spend the full grant amount before the expiry of the grant.

AGREED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE CABINET MEMBERS:

1.      That Cabinet delegates approval for award of contracts to the Strategic Director of the Economy and Strategic Director for Finance, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for the Economy and Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Ecology with contracts awarded after the announcement of grant funding in March /April 2024.

2.      That Cabinet notes the contracts will be up to a value of £ 12 m (subject to the size of the PSDSC grant awarded by Salix), but where the total value of the contract will not exceed the combined amount of grant funding received (£5.465m or less) and Council funding available to be allocated to the scheme.

3.      If the current application with Salix is unsuccessful, for Cabinet to confirm the same delegation for future Salix applications up the same value of £ 12 m without returning to Cabinet again for approval.