Issue - meetings

The revised 2016/17 and 2017/18 Housing Investment Programme budgets together with the proposed programmes for 2018/19 to 2022/23 were approved by the City Council on 14 February 2017.

The Council Housing Repairs & Maintenance Budgets for 2016/17 and 2017/18 were approved at the Housing Cabinet meeting on 24 January 2017.

The purpose of this report by the Director of Property and Housing is to inform members of the spending proposed for the next financial year for revenue and capital funded maintenance and improvement programmes, together with Housing IT Business Software and to seek approval to incur expenditure in respect of the capital schemes and rolling programmes and to show how the budgets have been allocated on an area office basis.

(The detailed area office allocations are to follow.)

RECOMMENDED:

(1)  That the area programmes and allocation of finance for the funding of the Revenue Budgets for repairs and maintenance of dwellings be noted.

(2)  That the capital budgets listed in Appendix B and Appendix C commencing in 2017/18 be approved and the Local Authority Housing Manager be authorised under Financial Rules, Section B14 to proceed with schemes within the sums approved.

(3)  That the Head of Financial Services and Section 151 Officer's financial appraisal be approved for the capital programme - global provision.

(1)  That the area programmes and allocation of finance for the funding of the Revenue Budgets for repairs and maintenance of dwellings be noted.

(2)  That the capital budgets listed in Appendix B and Appendix C commencing in 2017/18 be approved and the Local Authority Housing Manager be authorised under Financial Rules, Section B14 to proceed with schemes within the sums approved.

(3)  That the Head of Financial Services and Section 151 Officer's financial appraisal be approved for the capital programme - global provision.

Meredydd Hughes, the Assistant Director of Property and Housing, presented the report which set out the capital and revenue spending for council housing following the Council's setting of the budget in February.  The report set out the individual areas of spend and Meredydd apologised for the late circulation of the Maintenance & Improvements detailed summaries for each of the housing areas, as these had been subject to amendments leading up to the meeting. 

Councillor Wemyss stressed that these documents acted as guides for the spending but the exact sums were not fixed; Meredydd Hughes agreed that some of the works were going out to evaluation and tendering and some were due to have feasibility studies for the year ahead. If there were emergencies requiring urgent attention work would be undertaken where it was most needed.

DECISIONS:

(1)  That the area programmes and allocation of finance for the funding of the Revenue Budgets for repairs and maintenance of dwellings be noted.

(2)  That the capital budgets listed in Appendix B and Appendix C commencing in 2017/18 be approved and the Local Authority Housing Manager be authorised under Financial Rules, Section B14 to proceed with schemes within the sums approved.

(3)  That the Head of Financial Services and Section 151 Officer's financial appraisal be approved for the capital programme - global provision.