Issue - meetings

This report summarises the proposed 2020/21 capital programme and seeks the Panel’s approval for it to be submitted to Council in February 2020.

The Panel received and considered a report that sought guidance on the capital programme for 2020/21.

Members noted that the provisional programme had been scrutinised and recommended by the Capital Member Group.

Members asked whether there is flexibility to amend the criteria for assessing capital schemes in future. Officers responded that the criteria had been in place for a number of years, as a means of assessing and prioritising capital schemes consistently and to protect the Council’s diminishing capital reserves. Although the Council’s capital reserves remain at a low level, the criteria are agreed within the Capital Strategy annually by Members, so there is scope for them to be reviewed/amended in future.

Following consideration, the Panel agreed with the advice of the Capital Member Group to submit the following 2020/21 capital programme to Council for approval in February, subject to the relevant policy committees first approving project appraisals:-

(1)          Prioritised schemes totalling £908,000, funded from capital receipts of £651,000; S106 funds of £23,000; revenue reserves of £34,000; and a budgeted revenue contribution of £200,000.

(2)          A Disabled Facilities Grant scheme totalling £600,000, subject to external funding sources.