Issue - meetings

Cabinet Members: Highway Management and Travel & Development Strategy

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/156

Contact: Sasha Redhead, Project Manager, sasha.redhead@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CA9).

Approval to enter into funding agreements with Stagecoach and Go Ahead Group for ZEBRA.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to delegate authority to the Corporate Director for Environment and Place, in consultation with the Director for Law and Governance and the Cabinet Member for Highway Management to negotiate, finalise and enter into funding agreements with Oxford Bus Company (Go-Ahead) and Stagecoach to provide electric buses and charging infrastructure based on the funding milestones set out in this paper.

Recommendations agreed.

Cabinet considered a report setting out the need to agree payment terms and key milestones with bus operators to ensure the project’s timely delivery and the release of funds at appropriate points and ensure the funding conditions set out by the DfT are met. These provisions will be covered through legally binding funding agreements with the operators.

The recommendations were moved by Councillor Andrew Gant, Cabinet Member for Highway Development, and seconded by Councillor Lygo.  The recommendations were agreed.

RESOLVED to:

delegate authority to the Corporate Director for Environment and Place, in consultation with the Director for Law and Governance and the Cabinet Member for Highway Management to negotiate, finalise and enter into funding agreements with Oxford Bus Company (Go-Ahead) and Stagecoach to provide electric buses and charging infrastructure based on the funding milestones set out in this paper.