Issue - meetings

Forward plan Ref: 2010/019

Contact: Tim Darch, Assistant Public Transport Officer Tel: (01865) 815587

11.30am

Report by Head of Highways & Transport (CMDT12E)

The information in this report is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)

The Cabinet Member for Transport considered the report (CMDT12) and associated Annexes which dealt with decisions to be made on contract awards following the Review of Subsidised Bus Services in the Witney and Eynsham area, which, if awarded, would be effective from 12 December 2010 and other bus subsidy contracts elsewhere in the County.

Ms. Dow reported that total amount paid in respect of contracts was reducing in real terms over the length of the Medium Financial Term Plan because of negotiations with providers to reduce costs.  The Cabinet Member for Transport asked that his congratulations to the team be recorded.

Mr. Cloke corrected the report in that it was, of course, the Chairman of the County Council – not the Cabinet Member – who could agree to an executive decision being exempt from the Call In requirements.  He confirmed that the Chairman had agreed that, in her opinion, the decisions in relation to subsidised bus services in the Witney and Eynsham area were urgent in that any delay likely to be caused by the call in process would result in service discontinuity and, in accordance with the requirements of Scrutiny Procedure Rule 17(b), those decisions should not be subject to the call in process.

The Cabinet Member for Transport AGREED those levels of subsidy for the services described in the report (CMDT12) on the basis of the tender prices (and the periods of time) as set out in Supplementary Exempt Annex 2.

………………………………………………….       in the Chair

Date of signing          ………………………….       2010