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RESOLVED: that
Cabinet:
a)   
Noted the contents of the report
b)   
Endorsed the officer decision to purchase the
additional highway maintenance machinery
c)   
Agreed to allocate an additional capital budget of
£450,000 to fund the purchase of the new
machinery.
 
REASONS RESOLVED:
The recommended course of
action will allow for an increase in productivity and efficiency of
the Council’s highway maintenance for this year and future
years without the need to reduce the agreed 2023/24 capital
maintenance programme.
 
ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS:
The decision has been taken to
purchase one Pothole Pro and one additional TRR Machine. Delivery
of the machinery is anticipated late in July / early August 2023
and will be operational shortly after this once training of the
operatives is complete.
 
This purchase will be funded
either from existing capital budgets resulting in a reduction to
the planned programme of works in 2023/24 or from an additional
capital budget, allowing the 2023/24 planned programme of works to
continue in full.
 
If the existing budgets are
required to fund the purchase, then the removal of schemes from the
existing 2023/24 programme will result in additional deterioration
of the sites and additional minor repairs may be required in the
intervening period leading to pressure on the revenue budget. The
delay to the schemes will also result in those capital scheme costs
increasing due to the additional deterioration and inflationary
increases.