Decision details

Design and Cost Report: Proposed Maintenance Works: Leeds Grand Theatre

Reference: D43522

Decision Maker: Executive Board

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To provide financial support to Leeds Grand Theatre for proposed refurbishment works to the theatre.

 

Decisions:

The Director of City Development submitted a report regarding proposed maintenance works in respect of the Leeds Grand Theatre and which sought approval for an injection of funding into the Capital Programme, together with ‘Authority to Spend’, in order to enable such maintenance works to be undertaken.

 

Following consideration of Appendices 1 and 2 to the submitted report, designated as exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3), which were considered in private at the conclusion of the meeting, it was

 

RESOLVED –

(a)  That an injection of funding into the Capital Programme, together with an ‘Authority to Spend’ on the proposed maintenance works to the Leeds Grand Theatre, as detailed within exempt Appendix 1 to the submitted report, be approved;

 

(b)  That in the event that the injection of funding and ‘Authority to Spend’, as detailed within exempt Appendix 1 proves insufficient, the Deputy Chief Executive and the Director of City Development with the concurrence of the Executive Member for Economy and Culture be authorised to approve a further injection and ‘Authority to Spend’, as detailed in exempt Appendix 1, in order to facilitate the proposed maintenance works to the Theatre.

 

Reason Key: Expenditure > £250,000;

Wards Affected: City and Hunslet;

Portfolio Holder: Executive Member for Economy and Culture

Other reasons / organisations consulted

Written/verbal

Consultees

Executive Members for Economy and Culture and Regeneration, Transport and Planning

Contact: Chris Coulson 0113 2474459 Email: chris.coulson@leeds.gov.uk.

Report author: Chris Coulson

Publication date: 29/06/2016

Date of decision: 22/06/2016

Decided at meeting: 22/06/2016 - Executive Board

Effective from: 02/07/2016

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