Purpose

The Director of City Development will be
requested to authorise expenditure to carry out the second and
final phase of construction on Leeds Town Hall partial
refurbishment. Costs to be confirmed when the contractor submits a
final commercial offer, due on 9th May 2024.

Content

The Director of City Development has :-
a)  Noted the previous
authority to spend of £439,200 on the scheme for
pre-construction expenditure.
 
b)  Transferred
departmental borrowing of £350,000 from within the existing
City Development capital programme, giving a total programme budget
of £19,852,400, funded through £16,502,400 of Corporate
City Council borrowing and £3,350,000 of City Development
departmental borrowing.
 
c)  Approved the direct
award of a contract to Kier Construction Limited T/A Kier North and
Scotland (Kier) by calling off from the YORBuild3 Major Works
Framework (Lot 1 – Projects over £10m and up to
£30m) in the sum of £12,456,027.04 to carry out the
works described in this report. The contract shall commence on 17th
June 2024 and shall end on 12th January 2026.
 
d)  Authorised remaining
expenditure of £19,413,200 from existing Capital Scheme No.
16996/TRR and sub schemes to carry out refurbishment works and
access improvements at Leeds Town Hall.
 
e)  Approved that the
decisions forming the subject of this report be exempt from Call In
for the reasons stated in section 7 of the report.