Issue - meetings

The Director for Corporate Services to submit a report to provide information on the provisional Capital Programme year end position for 2017/18, and to give consideration for requests for carrying forward unspent budgets in 2017/18 to 2018/19 in respect to specific schemes.

The Director for Corporate Services submitted a report to provide information on the provisional Capital Programme year end position for 2017-18, including a range of performance measures, and to give consideration for requests for carrying forward unspent budgets in 2017-18 to 2018-19 in respect of specific schemes.

The Chair explained that there is no choice but to replace the finance system, the cost of which would be £250k and to do nothing would be £400k. And that due to the upgrade, which would likely be a cloud based system then the project would need to be funded from revenue funds which would necessitate a draw from the Corporate Priorities Reserve. The Chair also highlighted the procurement and implementation could be in conjunction with other Councils.

The recommendations were moved by Councillor Orson and Councillor Higgins seconded.

All Members were unanimously in favour.

RESOLVED that:

1) the schemes in the 2017-18 Capital Programme totalling £1,842,000 and shown in the column headed “Amount to Carry Forward to 2018-19 Scheme Specific” at Appendix A be carried forward and included in the Capital Programme as funded schemes.

2) delegated authority be granted to the Director for Corporate Services to vary the amount of the agreed carry forward on any scheme subject to the spending on any scheme not exceeding the total authorised funds for that scheme.

3) the project mandate relating to a procurement of a new finance system for inclusion into the 2019-20 capital programme for the sum of £250,000 as referred to in para 3.8 and attached at Appendix B be approved.