On 11 December 2018, Cabinet:-
(i) Approved the Options Appraisal (OA) and the Recommended Option for the Clean Air Zone (report Appendix B).
(ii) Approved the final proposals as detailed in Section 4 and Appendix A and authorises the submission of the Government Full Business Case for the Clean Air Zone (see report Appendix A) to Government.
(iii) Approved the Procurement Strategy as set out in report Appendix B2.
(iv) Approved the final proposals as detailed in Section 4 and Appendix C of the report and authorised the submission of the Clean Air Fund Report (Appendix C) to Government;
(v) Noted that the funding and the funding profile requested in report Appendix A is an estimate, and that the City Council is required to confirm costs and profile upon the confirmation of the Target Costs for each work stream;
(vi) Delegated authority jointly to the Cabinet Member, Transport and Environment, the Corporate Director, Economy and the Corporate Director, Finance and Governance to submit a subsequent report to Government, in line with (iv) above.
(vii) Delegated authority to the Cabinet Member, Transport and Environment, the Corporate Director, Economy and the Corporate Director, Finance and Governance to accept the funding from Government subject to Secretary of State approval of the GFBC;
(viii) Noted that a City Council Full Business Case (FBC) will be brought forward for separate CAZ work streams in line with the Council’s governance procedures and Gateway and Related Financial Approval Framework. Details of the BCC FBC’s which will be brought forward are given in the Options Appraisal (report Appendix B, Section 11);
(ix) Delegated authority to the Corporate Director, Economy jointly with the Corporate Director, Finance & Governance to approve the City Council FBCs in line with 2.7 above up to a value of £2.00m, subject to confirmation of funding;
(x) Delegated authority to the relevant portfolio holders jointly with the Corporate Director, Economy and the Corporate Director, Finance & Governance to approve the City Councils FBC’s in line with 2.7 above up to a value of £10.00m, subject to confirmation of funding;
(xi) Approved the release of interim development funding of £0.440m through the Transportation & Highways Capital Budget to progress individual projects to Full Business Case stage, in advance of the receipt of grant funding from Government, and delegates authority to incur expenditure to Assistant Director Transportation & Connectivity in accordance with the Council’s governance procedures and Gateway and Related Financial Approval Framework, (see Section 7.3.7 for further information);
(xii) Delegated approval to award the contracts as listed in report Appendix B2 to the Corporate Director, Economy, the Director of Commissioning and Procurement, the Corporate Director of Finance and Governance (or their delegate) and the City Solicitor (or their delegate);
(xiii) Noted that the Order for the CAZ to enable implementation of the recommended option, in line with the GFBC, will be submitted to Cabinet for approval. The Order is scheduled to be produced by April 2019;
(xiv) Delegated authority to the Cabinet Member, Transport & Environment jointly with the Corporate Director, Economy to approve subsequent FBC’s for the recruitment of staff resources required for the implementation stage and ongoing business as usual stage, subject to confirmation of funding. Recruitment of any staff will be in line with the existing City Council recruitment process and internal City Council sign off processes.
(xv) Authorised the City Solicitor to negotiate, execute, seal and complete all necessary documentation to give effect to the above recommendations.
THE DEADLINE FOR CALL IN IS 1600 HOURS ON TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER 2018.
A request for call in was submitted by Councillors Robert Alden and Timothy Huxtable at 13:05 hours on 18 December 2018. No action can be taken to implement the decision until the request has been considered by the Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee - the meeting should be held by 8 January 2018.