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Questions from County Councillors
Meeting: 18/06/2019 - Cabinet (Item 52)
52 Questions from County Councillors 
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Any county councillor may, by giving notice to the Proper Officer by 9 am two working days before the meeting, ask a question on any matter in respect of the Cabinet’s delegated powers.
The number of questions which may be asked by any councillor at any one meeting is limited to two (or one question with notice and a supplementary question at the meeting) and the time for questions will be limited to 30 minutes in total. As with questions at Council, any questions which remain unanswered at the end of this item will receive a written response.
Questions submitted prior to the agenda being despatched are shown below and will be the subject of a response from the appropriate Cabinet Member or such other councillor or officer as is determined by the Cabinet Member, and shall not be the subject of further debate at this meeting. Questions received after the despatch of the agenda, but before the deadline, will be shown on the Schedule of Addenda circulated at the meeting, together with any written response which is available at that time.
Decision:
See attached annex.
Minutes:
Councillor Emily Smith had given notice of the following question to Councillor Lindsay-Gale
Councillor Lindsay-Gale replied:
‘I have been in contact with Hertfordshire and I have been told that the DfE will be paying for the cost of transport for around 100 children from the Harpenden area for 2.5 weeks at the start of the September term until the new secondary school in Harpenden, Katherine Warington, is available. Transport will be provided from close to the new school site to and from temporary accommodation at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield.
Hertfordshire will be paying the costs of transporting entitled children to and from the permanent school site in Harpenden.
I have also been told that the building work has not actually been delayed – I understand that mid/late September was always the planned completion date which means there was always a need for contingency arrangements of some kind.
I will be seeking further information from Hertfordshire.
The Swan School is in temporary accommodation on the Cherwell School lower site playing fields adjacent to the future location of the permanent buildings and so there is no requirement for transport to another site. Only 1 child is eligible for free home to school travel to the Swan School.’
Councillor Roz Smith had given notice of the following question to Councillor Constance
“Why has the council not installed an electric vehicle charging point at the front of County Hall?”
Councillor Constance replied:
‘Workplace electric vehicle (EV) charging points (dual 22kW - wall mount unit) are installed at County Hall to enable the upgrade of the County Council’s pool car fleet to EVs. A detailed site survey carried out by the approved contractor Swarco UK Ltd identified the rear of County Hall as the easiest and most cost-effective location for installing the EV charge points. This was because the rear of County Hall already had a dedicated power supply from old, outdated EV charge points installed many years ago from an earlier trial, we just needed to upgrade the electric cable to support the new points. To install an EV charging point at the front of County Hall we would need to overcome the following issues, identified in the site survey as follows:
· Listed Status of County Hall including the low boundary wall at the front – restricting us from installing certain types of charge points.
· Power Supply: A longer cable run was required to get 3-phase supply from the mains meter room to the front, resulting in high installation cost
· Site security overnight: Not as secure to park pool cars at the front of the ... view the full minutes text for item 52