Decisions

The Chief Officer, Children's Social Work Service agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £197,912.00.

It is considered in the public interest the information cotained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Chief Officer, Children's Social Work Service agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £157,976.00.

It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Chief Officer, Children's Social Care Service agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £127,400.00.

It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Chief Officer, Children's Social Work Service agreed the recommendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £197,600.00.

It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to a vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Chief Officer, Children's Social Work Service agreed the recomendation of a report relating to the placement of a child/young person. The individual costs of the place are £210,860.00.

It is considered in the public interest that information contained in the report is exempt from publication as it relates to vulnerable child or young person of the city and the actions being taken to enable that person to live in a safe environment.

The Chief Officer Civic Enterprise Leeds gave authority to spend £138,193 for removing all the existing tiles and retiling the pool at John Smeaton Leisure Centre

The Deputy Chief Executive is requested to give Authority to Spend of £132,468 from existing budget provision (Capital Scheme no. 16256) to enable the completion of the required strip out works in St George House. This will enable the planned refurbishment works (which will be subject to separate approval following detailed design) to be completed in time to enable ‘ leased-in’ premises to be vacated on programme.

The Head of Learning Systems agreed to:
* authorise expenditure of £207,430.10 from capital scheme number 32274/BGE/FUR to enable orders ro be placed for furniture for the identified schools within the Learning Places 2016 Bulge Cohort Programme; and
* note the programme dates identified in section 3.2 of the attached report in relation to the implementation of this decision. The final delivery date for this scheme is prior to the commencement of term September 2016.

The Director of City Development has declared the site of the former West Leeds Family Learning Centre surplus to requirements and approved that the site be offered for sale on the open market.

The Chief Officer of CEL has the approve the request to commence a procurement exercise to tender for the contract to re-tile the pool at John Smeaton Leisure Centre together with associated pool water circulation works and internal decorating works. The estimated cost of the scheme is £138,192.70 (including NPS’s and PPPU fees).

The Chief Officer has also approved the tender evaluation methodology mentioned in this report and the weighting score of 80% price and 20% quality split.

The Director of Environment and Housing has agreed to:-

1. Instruct officers to instigate the sale of 9 Belle Isle Road, Hunslet, Leeds LS10 2DH and transfer the property to City Development to progress the sale with the proceeds recycled back into the West Yorkshire Recycling Empties Project Fund.

2. The sale of the property is to proceed on the basis that it will be sold within a six-month period. If the property is not sold at auction within this timeframe then it is to be retained and fully refurbished by the Council, provided there are no unforeseen circumstances or procedural delays.

The Director has approved the tender award for the purchase of up to 3 no. Medium 5 door cars to Peugeot Motor Company as per tender (A8WJ-5KF420)

The Chief Officer for Environmental Action agreed to consider commencement of a full framework procurement for the Leeds Type Litter bin and others for a 4 year period.

That following consultation with the relevant Group Whips, the following Councillors be appointed to vacancies on those Committees, Boards and Panels listed for the period upto the Annual Council Meeting on 19th May 2016:
• Councillor S McKenna to be appointed to the current vacancy upon City Plans Panel;
• Councillors A Ogilvie, B Selby and G Latty to be appointed to the current vacancies upon Scrutiny Board (City Development);
• Councillor B Anderson to be appointed to the current vacancy upon South & West Plans Panel;
• Councillor A Garthwaite to be appointed to the current vacancy upon Inner North West Community Committee;
• Councillor E J Tunnicliffe to be appointed to the current vacancy upon Inner North East Community Committee;
• Councillor R Stephenson to be appointed to the current vacancy upon Outer North East Community Committee;
• Councillors D Ragan and S Arif to be appointed to the current vacancies upon Inner East Community Committee;
• Councillors J Walker and S J Field to be appointed to the current vacancies upon Outer East Community Committee.
Such appointments are made in order to secure that meetings necessary to be held during that period can proceed with adequate and appropriate membership levels and representation.

The Natural Environment Manager authorised the City Solicitor:

to make and advertise a Public Path Diversion Order in accordance with Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, in respect of Public Footpath No.36 Aireborough shown on the maps attached as Background Documents A.

and to confirm the Order, subject to there being no objections or in the event of objections which cannot be withdrawn, for the order to be referred to the Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for determination.

The Director of Children's Services agreed to approve the commissioning of a number of impactful, innovative programmes by way of competitive grants process. The total budget for this grant process would be £230,000 for one year of programme delivery across the range of projects.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed the award of the domestic pest control contract to Mitie Pest Control Limited.
The contract will operate for a period of two years with the option to extend for two further periods of 12 months

The Director of Environments and Housing agreed to the approval of amendments to the Environment and Housings Sub-delegation Scheme the amendments in appendix one to this attached Report.
This report sets out proposed amendments to the sub-delegation scheme for the Director of Environment and Housing following amendments to the Leaders Executive arrangements. As a result of these changes the Directors delegation scheme has been updated.
The scheme sets out how the Director of Environment and Housing intends to exercise the powers delegated to him in accordance with the constitution.

The Head of Learning Systems agreed to:
* approve the proposal to carry out essential kitchen improvement works to address urgent health & safety issues at Thorner C/E Primary School;
* approve the procurement strategy to utilise competitive tendering methods in accordance with CPR 3.1.8;
* authorise expenditure in the sum of £180,401.00 from capital scheme number 32014/EXP/TNR 'Universal Infant Free School Meals' (UIFSM) to enable the proposed works at Thorner C/E Primary School; and
* note that the Asset Management Planning Manager (Built Environment Team) is responsible for scheme delivery which will be completed by October 2016.

The Area Head of Targeted (ENE) agreed to publish the attached record of decisions made in April 2016.

The Director of Environments and Housing agreed to the approval of funding from existing budgets to cover the cost of transitional arrangements for the cessation of LLAS and seed funding of the new Leeds Rental Standard.

Request to approve the proposed novation from Nissan Motors(GB) Ltd to a wholly owned subsidiary company Aprite (GB) Ltd. t/a West Way Nissan

The Assistant Chief Executive (Citizens and Communities) authorises:

Entering into a Local Authority Partnership Agreement with each of the following Yorkshire and Humber local authorities to distribute the Home Office grant as a pass through in accordance with a grant funding formula relating to the number of persons resettled :

• Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
• Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
• East Riding Of Yorkshire Council
• Hull City Council
• Kirklees Metropolitan Council
• North East Lincolnshire Council
• North Lincolnshire Council
• North Yorkshire County Council
• Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
• Sheffield City Council
• Wakefield Metropolitan District Council; and
• City of York Council

Entering into a grant funding agreement with the Refugee Council for a value of £3.7m and Refugee Education Training and Advice Service (RETAS) for a value of £105K each for a term of April 2016 to 01 November 2019;

That such agreements shall be in a form approved by the Head of Migration Yorkshire.

The Built Environment Programme Manager has approved:
* entry into a Pre-Construction Agreement with Clugston Construction Ltd to develop designs relating to the installation of modular accommodation on 9 Primary Schools with a liability up to a maximum of £75,000 for bid, design and Building Control fees should the Council decide to cancel all of the schemes prior to signing construction contracts and a liability up to a maximum of £85,000 to pay for required site surveys; and
* underwriting the potential expenditure up to a maximum of £75,000 to cover the liability should the Council cancel all 9 schemes and up to a maximum of £85,000 to pay for required site surveys.

The Built Environment Programme Manager agreed to:
* authorise expenditure of £50,000 from Capital Scheme Number 32274/BGE/EAR to underwrite the design fees incurred by the chosen contractor from the YORbuild 2 Framework (Clugston). The design process will inform the required modular solution prior to the 2016 bulge cohort modular accommodation;
*note the programme dates identified in section 4.2 of this report in relation to the implementation of this decision. The final delivery date for this scheme is prior to the commencement of the September term 2016; and
* note that the officer responsible for impleemtation is the Built Environment Project Officer.

The Director of Environment and Housing gave authority to procure in accordance with Contract Procedure Rule 3.1.8 a new contract for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for 2 further periods of 12 months, to provide servicing and maintenance of warden call and fire detection equipment installed in communal areas in sheltered housing schemes across the city. The anticipated annual value is £50,000 per annum. The total value of the agreement, inclusive of extensions, will be approximately £250,000

The Chief Information Officer is recommended to waive contract procedure rules 8.1 and award a contract to Data Press Ltd to host the open data platform (The Data Mill) and support the Leeds version of this platform (The Leeds Data Mill) for a period of 2 years.

The Director of Environment and Housing agreed to the purchase of 1 long term empty former RTB property and completion of refurbishment works in order to let as council housing

Approval to commence procurement of a series of development sprints and code custodian services to support the Integrated Digital Care Record Platform Development.

The Chief Officer Employment & Skills approved the criteria for evaluation and the waiver of contract procedure rules 3.1.23 and 15.2 to permit evaluation primarily on quality and to allow the Council to undertake post tender negotiations.