Issue - items at meetings - Capital Member Group

This report requests the Strategy and Resources Committee to consider

appointments to the Capital Member Group, approve an increase in budget of

the Disabled Facilities programme and to agree the capital bidding process for

2020/21 to 2022/23.

Following consideration, it was resolved:

That the Committee:

(1) Appointed the following Members to the Capital Member Group:

· Councillor Eber Kington (Chairman)

· Councillor Neil Dallen

· Councillor Colin Keane

· Councillor Barry Nash

· Councillor David Gulland

(2) Approved the increase in budget of £42,090 for the Disabled Facilities programme, in line with the allocation of central government grant funding;

(3) Confirmed the criteria for considering capital bids as set out in paragraph 9.1;

(4) Confirmed the criteria for assessing ‘spend to save’ capital bids as set out in paragraph 9.2.

The Committee received a report requesting it to consider appointments to the Capital Member Group, approve an increase in budget of the Disabled Facilities programme and to agree the capital bidding process for 2020/21 to 2022/23.

The following matter was considered:

a) Payback criteria for renewable energy projects. Following a question from a Committee Member, Officers informed the Committee that it was not proposed to extend the payback period for projects (which was 7 years in the case of renewable energy projects), as doing so increased the risk that the projected income/saving from the project would become unreliable. In exceptional cases a project which required a longer payback period could be presented to the relevant Committee for consideration.