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Members of the Council’s Finance, Procurement and Transformation (FPT) committee has met today (3rd March) to discuss an overview of the financial and physical progress of the capital programme for the current financial year.
Full Council agreed in February 2019 to an updated 10-year Capital Investment Strategy as part of the Council’s budget. This set the strategic direction for the development of the Council’s Capital Investment programme from roads to school buildings. The strategy allocated £32.626 million for financial year 2019/20.
Key allocations in the Capital Investment Strategy are;
- £7 million investment in school upgrades, including capital works required for the increase in early years education.
- £9.7 million investment in roads and other infrastructure to tackle pots holes, fix pavements and to promote active travel.
- £1 million investment into community assets such as parks and cemeteries , including £1m for the development of inclusive play parks and a play park fund.
The planned funding of the agreed Capital Investment Strategy for 2019/20 included £500k from the generation of receipts from capital asset sales. In addition, the 2019/20 agreed revenue budget included an additional £125K return from asset sales taking the overall target to £625K. At the end of December 2019 net receipts of £92k had been received against this target.
Chair of Finance, Procurement and Transformation Committee, Councillor Adam Wilson said: “Our Council is committed to investing in our region to grow our local economy and support our communities. Our Council’s capital investment strategy allocated £32.6 million of investment in our regions roads, schools and local parks. The vast majority of this funding has or will be spent within this financial year. With large infrastructure projects there is always likely to be some slippage and to ensure we deliver for our local communities we have held extensive consultation with local people to get it right first time. Our approach to working with communities to deliver capital investment has proven to work, I was delighted to see this happen in my own ward where we worked with the local community and opened the new Lockerbie Inclusive Playpark at the end of last year.”
Vice Chair, Henry McClelland said: “It is good to see that we have utilised almost all of the funding in this financial year. We have some very large projects into which we are providing significant investment, including asset class projects such as - Reshaping Stranraer and the West, Revitalising Dumfries, Strategic Employment Sites in Annan, Upper Nithsdale projects and various town centre improvement schemes.”
The full report can be read at:
https://dumfriesgalloway.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s20957/CIS%2019-20%20-%20Quarter%203.pdf
