134 Dix Pit Contract Variation
Cabinet Member: Environment
Forward Plan Ref: 2013/171
Contact: Andrew Pau, Strategic Manager, Waste & Transport Tel: (01865) 815867
Report by Director for Environment & Economy (CA15).
Oxfordshire County Council has a contract with FCC Environment Ltd (FCC) for the disposal of municipal waste at Dix Pit landfill site near Stanton Harcourt. The contract also provides for the operation of the Dix Pit household waste recycling centre. From summer/autumn 2014 residual waste will be sent to the energy from waste facility at Ardley for treatment and therefore use of the landfill site under this contract will end.
Discussions have taken place with FCC to determine the appropriate cost of closing the landfill and to reach an agreement to vary the contract to achieve this whilst securing the on-going provision of the household waste recycling centre.
The report seeks approval for the settlement agreement reached in principle with FCC and for delegated authority for the Director for Environment and Economy, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment, to finalise the agreement and sign the contract variation.
The information contained in the report and annexes is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:
3 – information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)
It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would distort the proper process of free negotiations between the authority with another party for the purposes described and would prejudice the position of the authority in those negotiations and other negotiations of a similar nature in future.
Minutes:
The information contained in the report and annexes is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:
3 – information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)
It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would distort the proper process of free negotiations between the authority with another party for the purposes described and would prejudice the position of the authority in those negotiations and other negotiations of a similar nature in future.
Cabinet considered a report containing exempt information and gave approval for the settlement agreement reached in principle with FCC Environment Ltd and for the Director for Environment & Economy in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment to finalise the agreement and sign the contract variation.