Cabinet recommends Full Council to:
(i) Accept grant funding from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) of £9.013M split between Capital £7.193M and Revenue £1.819M over the following three years 2012/13 to 2014/15. Total awarded to Transport for South Hampshire (TfSH), £17.839M;
(ii) Accept a further LSTF allocation of £330K to deliver Real Time Information (RTI) Phase 4 capital works in 2012/13;
(iii) Accept grant funding of £50K from Better Bus Area Fund (BBAF) to fund Capital expenditure of £40K in 2012/13 and Revenue expenditure of £10K in 2012/13;
(iv) Add to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme, Integrated Transport, £7.193M; phased £0.610M in 2012/13, £4.584M in 2013/14 and £1.999M in 2014/15, in order to deliver transport measures across the City funded by LSTF grant (see Appendix 1);
(v) Add to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme, Integrated Transport, a further £330K of LSTF allocation to deliver Real Time Information Phase 4 capital works in 2012/13. (see Appendix 1);
(vi) Add to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme, Integrated Transport, £40K of Better Bus Area Fund (BBAF) towards transport measures across the City in 2012/13 (see Appendix 1);
(vii) Add to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme, Public Realm, £1.392M of Public Realm Section 106 contributions phased £142K in 2012/13, £302K in 2013/14 and £948K in 2014/15 in order to deliver the Centenary Quay public realm (see Appendix 1);
(viii) Add to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme for Integrated Transport, £910K of Strategic Transport Section 106 contributions phased £80K in 2012/13, £410K in 2013/14 and £420K in 2014/15 towards developing transport measures across the City (see Appendix 1);
(ix) Approve to spend, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, schemes and projects totalling £9.865M to the Environment and Transport Capital Programme for Integrated Transport, phased £1.202M in 2012/13, £5.296M in 2013/14 and £3.367M in 2014/15 funded as detailed in Appendix 1 on schemes as detailed in Appendix 2 and Appendix 3;
(x) Approve the additionof £428,000 to the 2012/13 revenue estimates of the Environment and Transport Portfolio funded by government grant (LSTF and BBAF) and to note that further additions of £894,000 to the 2013/14 and £507,000 to the 2014/15 revenue estimates will be formally made as part of the preparation of those financial years’ budget; and
(xi) Note that Southampton will play a lead authority role for the delivery of a South Hampshire Smartcard for Public Transport, Legible Cities projects procured by SCC as lead authority for TfSH from LSTF Funding including developing a joint back office as agreed at TfSH Joint Council committee 25/09/2012, for which a scheme of £5M is included in the proposed capital programme, contained within the total addition to the capital programme of £9.865M.