Decisions

Approved payments totalling £52,600 as detailed at section 5.3.

Approved the sale of the initial sales equity of the two shared ownership properties at the site known as Vicarage View, Wednesfield, as detailed in the body of the report.

1.    Approved that the City of Wolverhampton Council should continue to fund the provision of digital autopsies for Wolverhampton residents in line with other Black Country Councils who also support the arrangement. Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton.

2.    Approved maintaining the Council’s commitment to digital autopsy as a mode of pathology and sign up to a contract with iGene

3.    Agreed that to extend the Digital Autopsy (DA) agreement to run co-terminus with the lease iGene have on the facility in Sandwell which ends on the 5 January 2025

4.    Noted that, the Association of Black Country Authorities agreed a proposal for an independent review of pathology and mortuary services across the region and this is now progressing. The purpose of the review is to look at current provision and identify whether there was scope for further collaborative working that might yield efficiencies and improved service delivery. Such an arrangement could provide the opportunity for more cost-effective digital autopsies across the region.

Approved the award of the contract for the provision of Parking, Bus Lane and Highways Enforcement to Marston Holdings Limited of Rutland House, 8th Floor, 148 Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2JR for a duration of five years, with an option to extend for two years, for an annual value of £652,197 and a total contract value of £4,565,379.

Approved the allocation of £293,000 from the Corporate Contingency to individual projects within Corporate Asset Management to facilitate the programme of works detailed in Table 1 to include fourteen new projects.

Approved the completion of the transactions listed below:

•           Land adjoining 1 Lowe Street - Minor disposal

•           Land to the rear of 93 Glaisdale Gardens – Minor disposal

•           Land at Tremont Street – Appropriation to HRA

•           Leasing of Land at Well Lane – Long lease

Approved payments totalling £54,775 as detailed at section 5.3

1.            Approved the Council entering into Agreements and Licenses to permit two Tiny Forests to be planted.

2.            Approved provision of match funding of £12,500 for one scheme, subject to approval of the budget by Cabinet (Resources) Panel.

1.    Approved the award of the contract for the improvement of Wolverhampton Art Gallery to E. Manton of 2440 Regents Court, The Crescent, Birmingham Business Park, Birmingham, B37 7YE, for a duration of 6 months, for a total contract value of £755,594.07

2.    That the Cabinet member for Resources in consultation with the Director of Finance approved the additional £132,000 to be allocated from the Corporate Contingency to the Art Gallery Improvement Scheme, taking the approved budget to £1.4 million.

1.    Approved the appointment of Councillor Rupinderjit Kaur to the Capital Projects Member Reference Group for the remainder of the 2020-2021 Municipal Year.

2.    Approved the appointment of Councillor Paula Brookfield to the Governance Committee for the remainder of the 2020-2021 Municipal Year.

3.    Approved the appointment of Councillor Phil Page to the Statutory and Non-Statutory Licensing Committee for the remainder of the 2020-2021 Municipal Year.