Agenda item

To agree the Local Committee budgets for highways and virements between budgets.

The Local Committee (Mole Valley) AGREED:

General

(i) To note that it has been assumed that the Local Committee’s devolved highways budget for capital, revenue and Community Enhancement works for 2014/15 remains the same as for 2013/14, at £650,776;

(ii) To authorise that the Area Team Manager, in consultation with the Local Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman be able to amend the programme should the devolved budget vary from this amount;

Capital Improvement Schemes (ITS)

(iii) That the capital improvement schemes allocation for Mole Valley be used to progress the Integrated Transport Schemes programme set out in Annex 1;

(iv) To authorise the Local Committee Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Area Team Manager, together with the relevant local divisional Member to progress any scheme from the Integrated Transport Schemes programme for the period 2014/15 to 2016/17, including consultation and statutory advertisement that may be required under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, for completion of those schemes;

(v) That where the Local Committee Chairman, Vice-Chairman, relevant local divisional Member and Area Team Manager agree that an Integrated Transport Scheme should not progress for any reason, a report be submitted to the next formal meeting of the Local Committee for resolution;

Capital Maintenance Schemes (LSR)

(vi) That the capital maintenance schemes allocation for Mole Valley be divided equitably between County Councillors to carry out Local Structural Repair, and that the schemes to be progressed be agreed by the Area Team Manager in consultation with the Local Committee Chairman, Vice-Chairman and local divisional Members;

(vii) To authorise that the Area Team Manager, in consultation with the Local Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman, be able to vire money between the capital improvement schemes (ITS) and capital maintenance (LSR) budgets for the period 2014/15 to 2016/17, if required;

Revenue Maintenance

(viii) To authorise the Area Maintenance Engineer, in consultation with the Local Committee Chairman, Vice-Chairman and relevant local divisional Member, to use £100,000 of the revenue maintenance budget for 2014/15 as detailed in Table 2 of this report;

(ix) That if the £5,000 per County Councillor allocated for Highways Localism Initiative works is not distributed by the end of November 2014, the monies revert to the relevant Members Community Enhancement allocation;

(x) That the remaining £152,110 of the revenue maintenance budget be used to fund a revenue maintenance gang in Mole Valley and to carry out other minor works identified by the Area Maintenance Engineer, in consultation with the Local Committee Chairman, Vice-Chairman and relevant local divisional Member;

(xi) To authorise that the Area Maintenance Engineer, in consultation with the Local Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman, be able to vire the revenue maintenance budget between the identified work headings in Table 2, with the exception of the Localism Initiative funding, for the period 2014/15 to 2016/17;

Community Enhancement Fund

(xii) That the Community Enhancement Funding is devolved to each County Councillor based on an equitable allocation of £5,000 per division; and

(xiii) That Members should contact the Area Maintenance Engineer to discuss their specific requirements with regard to their Community Enhancement allocation and arrange for the work activities to be managed by the Area Maintenance Engineer on their behalf.

Reason for Decision

The Local Committee have had detailed discussions with officers to inform the recommendations and were happy that the proposals reflected these.