Decisions

A temporary resting place was set up at Sandy Park to accommodate the significant additional number of deaths predicated in the Covid 19 pandemic.
Refrigerated storage units were hired, which required internal racking to be used as a resting place. Racking on which to place deceased people was purchased.

To purchase racking for six refrigerated containers at Sandy Park Temporary Resting Place on which to place deceased people. The racking allowed each of the 40ft containers to hold 50 deceased people.

A decision was made to increase and find an additional and alternative method to awarding LCPF Emergency Payments to assist more families in food/fuel poverty. A direct award was made to AllPay following soft market testing, as this solution had historically been used by LCPF and seen as the quickest to implement and best value for money.

Following the outbreak of COVID 19 there has been increased pressure on the Council’s Local Crisis and Prevention Fund (LCPF) for Emergency Payments. Additional funding from central government has been used to bolster this scheme to assist low income families in emergency need, by awarding universal spend cards.

A decision was made to increase the use of the existing LCPF award payment solution (Tesco supermarket vouchers) to be able to assist more families and to possible greater extent and increase their contract value.

Following the outbreak of COVID 19 there has been increased pressure on the Council’s Local Crisis and Prevention Fund (LCPF) for Emergency Payments. Additional funding from central government has been used to bolster this scheme to assist low income families in emergency need with relation to food poverty by awarding supermarket vouchers.

The grant will enable Southmead Connect to continue to work with people referred from the local Adult Social Care Team using an approach called ‘Combining Personalisation and Community Empowerment’ (CPCE). This involves delivering more tailored support for people through a combination of individual support and “life planning” and the engagement of people with support needs and the wider community in community volunteering to develop provision. As well as meeting the needs of the individuals referred this approach will help develop support in Southmead that other vulnerable or older people can use, helping people remain independent, contribute to their community and enjoy health and wellbeing.
Adult Care have been working in partnership with Southmead Connect to develop CPCE. This approach has been taken in other areas successfully. This continuation of the pilot grant will enable Adult Care to continue to work with Connecting Southmead to share learning on what works, and what is an appropriate way to formally commission and pay for CPCE projects. At the end of the pilot, if successful, there will be opportunities for lead organisations in other areas to bid to run similar projects.
This is the continuation of a service that will support people with care and support needs living in the North of the City – making use of community volunteers and will be a key part of ASC response to Covid- 19.

To grant of £120k over 12 months from Bristol City Council Adult Care to Connecting Southmead to enable them to continue with the pilot of a community development approach to supporting vulnerable adults diverted from Adult Care who would otherwise require support under the Care Act

BCC and BWCL Motor insurance was last tendered in April 2017 as a combined package. The current period of insurance expires on 31st March 2020.
The compliant tender for BCC and BWC as per the Public Contract Regulations enabled the opportunity to test the market for value for money (VfM) and for Social Value purposes on the existing basis i.e. combined cover for BCC

Approval was sought from Cabinet on 1 October 2019 to invite competitive tenders for the Bristol City Council (BCC) and Bristol Waste Company Ltd (BWCL) Motor insurance for a three year period or for a three year period renewable for a further two years at the Council’s option, from 1 April 2020 in accordance with the Contracts Procedure Rules.
The decision was to award the combined BCC and BWCL Lot 3 Motor Insurance following a full Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) Contract Notice reference number 2019/S 231-566598 dated 29 November 2019 in line with BCC’s procurement strategy.

The Cabinet decision made in 2018 gave officers delegated authority to accept the funding award of up to £2m. It is necessary to take this decision, noted above, as the forecast spend through to the additional Cabinet approval exceeds that delegated authority by £476k.

•In March 2018 Cabinet authorised the receipt and spending of up to £2m grant funding from JAQU (the Joint Air Quality Unit) for the Clean Air Zone Feasibility Study. Due to the additional work required by Central Government before approval of a final scheme can be granted, the project forecast now exceeds this. Additional funding is therefore required to continue developing the Full Business Case, due for submission in September 2020. JAQU have confirmed the provision of additional funding, however, pending further approval being sought at the next Cabinet on the 9th April 2020, it is necessary to make this decision to cover funding up to that point.
•This will take the total spend to date up to £2.5m. The additional spend not covered by the Cabinet approval is estimated as £476,000, and the Executive Director of Resources – Head of Paid Service has delegated authority to approve this. The decision is to approve both the receipt of these funds from JAQU and the spend up to the next Cabinet approval.
•The Cabinet report will then include a request for additional spend to take the project through to the completion of the Full Business Case and also to begin implementation of the medium zone which will be a further £12m.

After approximately three years of construction, the AVTM MetroBus scheme commenced operation in September 2018. The majority of the land over which the scheme was built was used under powers of license granted by the Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO) 2013.
* Now that construction is complete and the final land take of the project has been confirmed, the final payments for land used can be made through the fifth and final TWAO General Vesting Declaration process.

That the Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration, in exercising the powers delegated to him by Cabinet in October 2014, approves that payments be made to all landowners whose Full and Final payment requests are approved by Carter Jonas, to a maximum of £1,381.522.