Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Built Environment

Further to Minute No. 47 above, the Cabinet considered a further report by the Director of Built Environment relating to the negotiations with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company on the legal agreement for the River Dredging Project to be funded from the Regional Growth Fund and the Wide Area Studies.

This was a Key Decision and was included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

RESOLVED:            That

(1)       the Cabinet Member - Regeneration and Tourism be granted delegated authority to accept the unconditional offer of Regional Growth Fund;

(2)       the Cabinet Member - Regeneration and Tourism be granted delegated authority to agree the Co-operation Agreement between the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and the Council;

(3)            officers be requested to establish the post of Project Co-ordinator in the Built Environment Department as a two-year appointment on the Council’s payroll, funded by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company at no cost to the Council, in anticipation of a successful grant award; and

(4)            officers be authorised to appoint a consultant for the Wide Area Studies associated with the channel dredge project.