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Learning Places Programme - Capital Programme

Meeting: 22/06/2016 - Executive Board (Item 9)

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To consider the joint report of the Director of Children’s Services, the Deputy Chief Executive and the Director of City Development which provides an update on the three year strategy for providing sufficient school places in the city, an update on the progress of the projects currently forming the Learning Places Programme and to seek approval for authority to spend for schemes within the 2016 Bulge Cohort Programme, which is a sub-programme of the Learning Places Programme.

 

Please note Appendix E to this report is designated as exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3)

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Further to Minute No. 75, 21st October 2015, the Director of Children’s Services, the Deputy Chief Executive and the Director of City Development submitted a joint report which presented an update on the three year strategy for providing sufficient school places in the city, an update on the progress of the projects currently forming the Learning Places Programme and which also sought approval for the ‘authority to spend’ for schemes within the 2016 Bulge Cohort Programme, which was a sub-programme of the Learning Places Programme.

 

Responding to a specific enquiry, officers undertook to provide the Member in question with details of the original estimated costs for those schemes, as detailed within Appendix B to the submitted report.

 

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

 

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the following be approved:

(i)  Authority to spend on the schemes identified within the 2016 Bulge Cohort Programme which have an individual cost in excess of £500k, at a total value up to £3,410,000, as detailed within the Table at exempt Appendix E of the submitted report;

 

(ii)  The delegation of the approval of design and cost reports for the bulge cohort schemes which exceed £500k to the Director of Children’s Services, and that these approvals shall be subject to the agreement of the Director of City Development and the Deputy Chief Executive in consultation with the appropriate Executive Members in line with the September 2014 Executive Board approval for the Learning Places Programme, and as detailed in the Table in exempt Appendix E;

 

(iii)That the resolutions as detailed within this minute be exempted from the Call In process, for those reasons as set out within paragraph 4.5.3 of the submitted report (detailed below).

 

(b)  That the following be noted:

(i)  The projected funding deficit which currently stands at £67.5m, based on Education Funding Agency rates, together with the fact that this is likely to increase due to a number of factors, as set out within paragraph 4.4.5 of the submitted report;

 

(ii)  That the current reporting period has seen two further requests to access the programme capital risk fund (for Castleton Primary School and Roundhay Secondary School) totalling £1,278,944, leaving a balance of £4,356,056, which were approved in accordance with the Executive Board governance arrangements.

 

(The Council’s Executive and Decision Making Procedure Rules state that a decision may be declared as being exempt from Call In by the decision taker if it is considered that any delay would seriously prejudice the Council’s, or the public’s interests. In line with resolution (a)(iii) above, the resolutions contained within this minute were exempted from the Call In process due to the constricted programme required to enable delivery of Bulge Cohort schemes by September 2016 and the limited opportunity to seek authority to spend between the date when pupil preferencing data  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9