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Record of Exercise of Delegated Powers
19th June – 2nd July 2008
Executive Director/Head Of Service: Interim Director of Development Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Ian Auckland
Decision: That (a) the revised tender of Thinking Space Systems Ltd in the sum of £480,991.37 with the variation of price clause deleted except for tax fluctuations, be accepted;
(b) a letter of acceptance for this project be issued;
(c) approval to the expenditure of £108,910.00 for “Other Work” by way of direct order; and
(d) the spending profile be noted.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Interim Director of Development Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Ian Auckland
Decision: That (a) the revised tender of Contractor D, Siemens Traffic Control (A Division of Siemens PLC) in the sum of £459,168 at the rates and prices in the Schedule of Rates, be accepted;
(b) a letter of acceptance for this project be issued;
(c) approval to the expenditure of £21,000 for “Other Work”; and
(d) the spending profile be noted.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Programme Director Strategy and Investment
Cabinet Member: Councillor Bob McCann
Decision: To (a) approve the appointment of Ecotec to carry out the above contract; and
(b) note the financial, legal, personnel, health safety and equality implications with regard to the consultancy to carry out research into the Private Rented Sector of the housing market.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Programme Director Strategy and Investment
Cabinet Member: Councillor Bob McCann
Decision: To (i) terminate the existing contract for the provision of security guards at Park Hill; and
(b) enter an agreement with South Yorkshire Police for the provision of special police services at Park Hill.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Acting Executive Director, Development, Environment and Leisure Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed
Decision: To approve the capital spend to implement segregated recycling litter bins at 12 Principal Shopping sites across the City.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Acting Executive Director, Development, Environment and Leisure Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed
Decision: That the green sack collection scheme scheduled for Summer 2008 be approved.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Acting Executive Director, Development, Environment and Leisure Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed
Decision: To agree to the proposed trial of 100 Green Cone Units and approve the capital spend for the purchase of the Green Cone Units.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Director of Parks and Countryside
Cabinet Member: Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed
Decision: To seek approval of the revised Capital Project Form A required for the enhanced works in respect of Endcliffe Park Playground rebuilding.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Director of Parks and Countryside
Cabinet Member: Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed
Decision: That (a) the revised tender of Bernhards Landscapes (Wakefield) Ltd in the sum of £231,500.00 on a fixed price basis be accepted in respect of Endliffe Park Play Area;
(b) a letter of acceptance for this project be issued;
(c) approval to the expenditure of £37,000.00 for “Other Work” by way of direct order; and
(d) the spending profile be noted.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Acting Executive Director, Development Environment and Leisure Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Ian Auckland
Decision: That (a) the rates and prices contained within each individual tender of the following two Contractors be accepted and a letter of acceptance be issued to each in respect of South Yorkshire Intelligent Transport System (syITS) – Communications Equipment for Traffic Signals. The estimates for each are for the capital and revenue costs and are based on the quantities within the tender document. These are likely to change however if the GPRS/wireless sites can be expanded:
Contractor D – Powergroup - - £1,211,778.84
Contractor F – Integrated Design Techniques Ltd - £ 166,065.00
TOTAL - £1,377,843.84
(b) delegated authority be granted to the Head of Transport and Highways to place orders for work as appropriate with each of the successful contractors at the rates and prices contained within their individual tenders;
(c) approval for expenditure of up to £45,000.00 on “Other Work” by way of a direct order be granted; and
(d) the spending profile be noted.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Director of Parks and Countryside
Cabinet Member: Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed
Decision: To seek approval for the restoration and redevelopment of Whinfell Quarry Gardens and to approve the attached CP A to allow work to proceed with development and procurement of this Heritage Lottery Funded project.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Acting Executive Director, Development Environment and Leisure Services
Cabinet Member: Councillor Ian Auckland
Decision: To undertake a new public consultation exercise, using a specially created web-page, for seeking the views of the community on local features of the highways network that seem either unnecessary or unduly restrictive. A register of requests to be created that the public would then be able to vote on to identify the highest priority features for amending/changing. A programme of changes to be worked up for the top requests and delivered using a new ‘one-off’ corporate allocation to be made available in relation to the launch of Junctions “Driving me Crazy” Initiative.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Executive Director, Children and Young People
Cabinet Member: Councillor Andrew Sangar
Decision: To give authority for the purpose of e-learning content licences from an existing schools’ supplier, Education City, at a cost of £25,000.00 for 137 schools for six months from July 2008 in respect of the purchase of e-learning content.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Director of Corporate Resources
Cabinet Member: Councillor Simon Clement-Jones
Decision: Authority to extend the existing Contracts with Liberata to midnight on 4th January 2009.
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Executive Director/Head Of Service: Director of Capacity, Planning and Development
Cabinet Member: Councillor Andrew Sangar
Decision: To approve the expenditure as authorised in the CPAs for new/revised expenditure of £61.5m, giving a programme in excess of £195m in respect of the Capital Programme 2007/2008 Month 11 Monitoring Report.
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