POLICY & RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Agenda Item 137 Brighton & Hove City Council

Subject:		Education Capital Resources and Capital Investment Programme 2023-24
Date of Meeting:		16 March 2023
Contact Officer:	Name:	Emma Thomson
	E-mail:	emma.thomson@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Wards Affected:		All Wards

For General release

This report was considered at the CYPS Committee meeting held on 6 March 2023 and will now come to the P&R Committee. The report and an extract from CYPS Minutes are provided, with P&R being asked to consider the following recommendation:

Recommendations:

That the Policy & Resources Committee:

(i) Grant delegated authority to the Assistant Director of Property & Design to procure the capital maintenance and basic need works and enter into contracts within these budgets, as required, in accordance with Contract Standing Orders in respect of the entire Education Capital Programme.

Extract from CYPS committee minutes

Brighton & Hove City Council

Children, Young People & Skills Committee

4.00pm6 March 2023

Council Chamber, Hove Town Hall

Minutes

Present: Councillor Allbrooke (Chair) John (Deputy Chair), O'Quinn (Opposition Spokesperson), Brown (Group Spokesperson), Hamilton, Lloyd, McNair, Meadows and Nield

Co-optees: Mr A Muirhead and Ms B Robinson

56 Education Capital Resources & Investment 2023/24

56.1    The Head of School Organisation and Head of Education Standards introduced the             report which outlined the level of available capital resources allocated to support education buildings and recommended a capital programme for 2023/24 in respect    of School Condition Allocation (SCA) and Basic Need funding.

56.2    Cllr Meadows raised questions regarding the unallocated Basic Need funding from             previous years, re-use of mobile accommodation and Section 106 funding.

56.3    Cllr O’Quinn had queries regarding the Cedar Centre funding, Homewood College           and the Community Infrastructure Levy and requested a table was provided which      outlined the expenditure on Homewood works.

56.4    Cllr Nield sought more information on Legionella funding.

56.5    Cllr Brown requested further information on the progress of the Cedar Centre        satellite sites.

56.6    RESOLVED: That the Committee agreed –

i. That the level of available capital resources totalling £5million for investment relating to education buildings financed from capital grant be noted.

ii. The allocation of funding as shown in Appendices 1 and 2 and recommended this to Policy & Resources Committee on 16 March

            2023 for inclusion within the Council’s Capital Investment Programme

            2023/24.

iii. To recommend to Policy & Resources Committee that they grant delegated authority to the Assistant Director of Property & Design to procure the capital maintenance and basic need works and entered into contracts within these budgets, as required, in accordance with Contract Standing Orders in respect of the entire Education Capital Programme.