Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, seeking approval to accept new funding awarded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs add the funding to the capital programme for flood risk management and delegate authority to spend, attached.

DECISION MADE: (Ref: CAB 13/14 10406)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member forEnvironment and Transport, Cabinet agreed the following:

i.  To accept the grant of £472,000 from Defra through the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder Scheme;

ii.  To add, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, a sum of £472,000 to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme in order to deliver the Flood Risk Management scheme; and

iii.  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedural Rules, capital expenditure of £472,000, phased £95,000 in 2013/14 and £377,000 In 2014/15 to deliver the flood risk management project in St. Denys.