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Art Gallery Improvement Scheme Works

Meeting: 20/01/2021 - Cabinet (Resources) Panel (Item 5)

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[To approve the recommendation to restart the Art Gallery Improvement Scheme project from June 2021]

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.      That the restart of the Art Galley Improvement Scheme Project - Phase Two from June 2021 be approved.

 

2.      That the acceptance of the grant funding of £159,758 from Arts Council England Cultural Capital Kickstart funding be approved and that the supplementary capital budget be created from this grant.

 

3.      That a virement of £290,000 from the Corporate capital contingency budget to create the required capital project budget to complete the Art Galley Improvement Scheme Project - Phase Two, as detailed in the report be approved.

 

4.      That it be noted that the additional cost required to restart the project would bring the total budget of the Art Galley Improvement Scheme Project - Phase Two to £1,526,000 and that this total includes £132,000 that was approved through an Individual Executive Decision Notice in February 2020. Total project costs for Phase one and Two are now £1,829,000.

 

Minutes:

Councillor Stephen Simkins presented the report on a proposal to restart phase two of the Art Gallery Improvement Scheme project from June 2021 and to approve the associated funding arrangements for the project. Phase two had been halted in March 2020 due to national lockdown restrictions arising from the coronavirus pandemic which prevented construction from commencing as planned. Following an options appraisal of the project, it was now proposed to continue with the full improvement scheme based on a restart from June 2021. He reported that the proposal would support a number of key objectives in the Council’s Relighting Our City strategy.

 

Resolved:

1.    That the restart of the Art Galley Improvement Scheme Project - Phase Two from June 2021 be approved.

 

2.    That the acceptance of the grant funding of £159,758 from Arts Council England Cultural Capital Kickstart funding be approved and that the supplementary capital budget be created from this grant.

 

3.    That a virement of £290,000 from the Corporate capital contingency budget to create the required capital project budget to complete the Art Galley Improvement Scheme Project - Phase Two, as detailed in the report be approved.

 

4.    That it be noted that the additional cost required to restart the project would bring the total budget of the Art Galley Improvement Scheme Project - Phase Two to £1,526,000 and that this total includes £132,000 that was approved through an Individual Executive Decision Notice in February 2020. Total project costs for Phase one and Two are now £1,829,000.