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(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Eileen Blamire)

Report of the Corporate Director (Community Services). 

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Eileen Blamire)

The Corporate Director (Community Services) submitted a report that sought approval for the submission of a proposal to Cycling England to extend the Council’s Cycling Demonstration Town Project for a further three years. 

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment, were set out in the report as follows: 

The options were:

(i)                        to submit a proposal and accept an offer of funding based on that proposal; 

(ii)                      to not submit a proposal and develop an exit strategy for the CDT project when funding runs out in the autumn of 2008. 

The proposal would be developed with support from Cycling England so the risk of not meeting their conditions would be minimal.  The greater risk is in not managing to deliver match funding, but project stages would only be authorised once all the funding was in place for that stage. 

The preferred officer option was option (i), to continue the existing project to support the Council’s Corporate Priorities. 

It was moved by Councillor Eileen Blamire and seconded by Councillor Tony Johnson: -

“That the recommendations, as set out in the report, be approved.” 

Members then voted as follows.

Resolved unanimously:

(1)     That Cabinet support the submission of a further proposal to Cycling England to extend our Cycling Demonstration Town Project for a further three years. 

(2)     That if the proposal is agreed, then the current organisational arrangements for delivering the project, including delegated powers, be extended for a further three years. 

(3)               That Cabinet authorise the Head of Financial Services to update the General Fund Capital Programme and General Fund Revenue Budget to reflect the expenditure and financing of the overall project subject to there being a nil impact on the Council’s Capital and Revenue financial resources. 

Officers responsible for effecting the decision:

Corporate Director (Community Services). 

Head of Financial Services. 

Reason for making the decision:

The decision provides an excellent opportunity to be able to continue this very successful, high profile project for a further three years.