Decision details

Aware of new contracts starting in December 2009

The Committee considered a report (TDC11E) which described bus services in the Bicester and Kidlington area for which subsidy agreements were due to terminate in December 2009 together with four further contracts outside the review area. The report also set out the financial position of the bus subsidy budget. ??

Councillor Patrick supported continuation of the current level of service 31 and referred to the potential impact on levels of reliability and effectiveness if that service were reduced to a 2 hour service. She welcomed the continuation of the current 32 service and called for more publicity for services generally.

Councillor Turner expressed general support for the recommendations although Contract S81 (services 105/106/136) did not include Nuneham Courtenay or the Baldons.

Mr Darch confirmed that the Baldon Parish Councils had been consulted.

RESOLVED:      to:

(a)        approve subsidy for the services described in the report TDC11E on the basis of the tender prices (and the periods of time) as set out in Supplementary Exempt Annex 2 to that report;

(b)                record that in the opinion of the Committee the decisions made in (a) above 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; and

(c)                agree that a publicity leaflet be published and distributed containing bus timetables for all the new bus services in the Bicester, Kidlington and Woodstock area dealt with in this review.