Purpose

A report providing information on the forecast outturn position for 2024/25 for General Fund Capital schemes for both General and Special Expenses and also setting out the proposed General Fund Capital Programme based on a review of spending in the current year's Programme and new and existing schemes included in the Programme for later years.

Decision

Cabinet:

 

1)   
NOTED the capital programme forecast
outturn for 2024/25 as set out in Appendix A.

 

2)   
RECOMMENDED that Council delegates
authority to the Director for Housing and Communities, in consultation with the
Director for Corporate Services, to access additional funding from capital
receipts to fund the purchase of up to five food waste collection vehicles;

 

3)    RECOMMENDED
that Council approves the General Expenses Capital Programme for 2025/26 and associated funding as set out in Appendix B;

 

4)    RECOMMENDED
that Council approves the indicative five year
General Expenses Capital Programme for 2025-29 as set out in Appendix C;

 

5)    RECOMMENDED
that Council delegates authority to the Director for Corporate Services to
amend the amount in the capital programme for Disabled Facilities Grants once
funding confirmation has been received as referred to in Appendix 1 at
paragraph 5.10;

 

6)    RECOMMENDED
that Council approves the Capital Strategy 2025/26 as attached at Appendix
D.