Decision Details

Report of Managing Director - City Operations

This report seeks to inform Cabinet of the Council’s plan to end the current state of emergency on 2 August 2021, subject to specific conditions being met.  This will enable the Council to increase its focus on supporting Birmingham residents and businesses to recover from the impacts of the pandemic.

On 27 July 2021, Cabinet:-

1. Noted the Council’s plan to end the current state of emergency on 2 August 2021. This decision being subject to specific conditions being met including the majority of current, national restrictions being lifted on the 19 July 2021, the final date in the government’s roadmap;

    

2. Delegated authority to the Council’s Director of Public Health in consultation with the Director of Council Management, the City Solicitor, the Leader and the relevant Cabinet Member (depending on the proposed spend) to use the Test & Trace budget and other related COVID funding sources to best mitigate risks arising from the ongoing pandemic, especially where there is a need to respond quicker than the Council’s statutory decision making process would allow, until 31 March 2022. This is on the basis that the Director of Public Health will update Cabinet at least every two months on progress, decision taken and the use of the budgets and funding;

    

3. Delegated authority to the Managing Director of City Operations in consultation with the Director of Council Management, the Leader and the relevant Cabinet Member to approve Leisure Supplier Relief payments during FY2021/22, up to a maximum of £2.9m, the amount the Council has been award via the National Leisure Recovery Fund. This is on the basis that the Managing Director of City Operations will provide quarterly updates to Cabinet on payments made against the £2.9m funding award.

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