Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/030

Contact: Sam Thomas, Property Decarbonisation Manager

Sam.thomas@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Executive Director of Resources (CMDF4)

The Cabinet Member for Finance is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)           To approve the receipt of £3.1m grant funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Fund.

(b)           To note, subject to approval (a), that the total Decarbonisation Programme budget included in the capital programme for 2024/25 will be £8.2m for works to 26 sites.

(c)           To approve the commencement of the procurement of decarbonisation works with a value above £1m for Kidlington Fire Station HQ.

(d)           To approve the commencement of the procurement of decarbonisation works with a value above £1m for Oxford Resource Centre.

(e)           To approve the commencement of the procurement of decarbonisation works for the other sites in the programme of works, noting that where sites may be batched together into a single procurement exercise these will have a combined value in excess of £1m.

(f)             Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Resources & Section 151 Officer to agree the procurement strategy and award of contracts associated with the 2024/25 Property Decarbonisation Programme.

Recommendations Approved

The Cabinet Member considered a report which indicated that the Council has secured central government grant funding of £3.1m, requiring £5.1m match funding, to conduct full scale property decarbonisation of 26 buildings, putting these buildings on the pathway to net zero.

This funding was time limited and need to be spent by 31 March 2025. A complex programme of works to replace aged equipment in a poor state of repair would generate potential carbon savings of 425 Tonnes of CO²e.

RESOLVED to:

(a)           approve the receipt of £3.1m grant funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Fund.

(b)           note, subject to approval (a), that the total Decarbonisation Programme budget included in the capital programme for 2024/25 will be £8.2m for works to 26 sites.

(c)           approve the commencement of the procurement of decarbonisation works with a value above £1m for Kidlington Fire Station HQ.

(d)           approve the commencement of the procurement of decarbonisation works with a value above £1m for Oxford Resource Centre.

(e)           approve the commencement of the procurement of decarbonisation works for the other sites in the programme of works, noting that where sites may be batched together into a single procurement exercise these will have a combined value in excess of £1m.

(f)             Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Resources & Section 151 Officer to agree the procurement strategy and award of contracts associated with the 2024/25 Property Decarbonisation Programme.