Decisions

The Syrian Resettlement Team delivers the Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) on behalf of the Home Office. The cost of the scheme is fully funded by the Home Office.
The LA identifies a property and pays rent on the property and then the Home Office matches a refugee family from the Middle East and North African region to resettle in the UK. The Home Office budget is used to fund the rent for the property until the new family arrives and is in receipt of benefits. This can be six months full rental costs. In addition the budget funds the deposit and the difference between the rental cost and the tenant contribution and overall the VPRS budget fund 50% of rental costs.
Home Turf Lettings (a subsidiary of DHI Bath) sourced 20 properties to house the first 20 VPRS families and now manage the properties on behalf of landlords. The VPRS pay Home Turf Lettings a management fee which is 20% of the value of the rent for each property. In total £446,040 will have been paid to Home Turf lettings since the inception of VPRS.
From September 2017, the Syrian Resettlement Team decided to source accommodation inhouse. The Syrian Resettlement Team uses the Bristol Credit Union to collect rents from tenants and to make monthly rental payments to landlords. In August 2019, the Syrian Resettlement Team is renting 52 properties owned by private sector landlords. The Bristol Credit Union charges a management fee of £10 per account per month. From January 2018 – August 2019 the Bristol Credit Union have been funded £12,750 for their management fees. In August 2019 the Bristol credit union is managing 61 tenant accounts and 52 landlord accounts.

To approve the transfer of £50,000 for outstanding payments due to Home Turf Lettings and allow the transfer of £80,000 to the Bristol Credit Union between September 2019 and December 2019.

The winning tender return is within the price range for being an OED

Approval to award a call off contract from a Framework to carry out window replacement, external maintenance

To:
-Roll out mental health awareness training to key sectors within the city.
-Undertake, and effectively evaluate, interventions being tested within city workplaces.
-Develop and test culturally informed approaches within our communities.
-Fund anti-stigma activities, building upon our ‘Time to Change’ hub.
-Fund website and public engagement work to communicate opportunities to get involved.
-Fund activities for the schools, students and housing workstreams.

Thrive Bristol is our city-wide programme to improve the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in Bristol. It is focusing on prevention and the role partners from across the city can play in promoting good mental health. It is helping to achieve key goals within Bristol’s One City Plan – such as those to roll out mental health awareness training to 1 in 5 in Bristol; for Bristol to become a ‘suicide safe city’; and for mental health stigma and discrimination to be eradicated.
Cllr Asher Craig agreed to this funding to enable the programme to:
-Roll out mental health awareness training to key sectors within the city.
-Undertake, and effectively evaluate, interventions being tested within city workplaces.
-Develop and test culturally informed approaches within our communities.
-Fund anti-stigma activities, building upon our ‘Time to Change’ hub.
-Fund website and public engagement work to communicate opportunities to get involved.
-Fund activities for the schools, students and housing workstreams.

To enable communications work between now and the end of the project, including: To update and resource the Communications Strategy; Develop short inspirational videos driving people to the GFG website weblink; Creative planning for engagement activities; Engagement work including responding to queries generated by the G4G website; Regular social media activity; Regular newsletter updates.

Funding of the Going for Gold Project (GFG) to undertake work on communications and public engagement. The project is a city-wide effort to make big and lasting improvements to the way we grow, buy and eat food in Bristol, and be recognised as a Gold Sustainable Food City by the end of 2020. Achieving this will contribute towards the One City Plan’s 2050 Goal: ‘Everyone will have access to healthy, ethical

The Mayor of Bristol has set out the objective of delivering 2000 new homes per year, of which 800 should be affordable, by 2020.
In response to this the Council has established a new Housing Delivery Team, a single multi-function team that will deliver homes through a number of routes including, making grant available to Registered Providers (RPs) to deliver affordable homes for rent. This is the eighteen round of grant funding by the Council under a new delegated authority scheme agreed by Cabinet on 2nd April 2019.

Approves the total grant allocation to Alliance Homes Housing Association of £550,000 for 10 affordable rented homes from the Affordable Housing Funding budget made under the delegated authority for grant payments (including those in excess of £0.5m) to support the delivery of housing approved by Cabinet on 7th March 2017.

Under the Vires of the contract approved by Cabinet Decision on 9th March 2004 which identifies the Director of Finance (Chief Financial Officer) as the duly authorised officer of the Authority empowered to execute, deliver and issue certificates pursuant to the Local governments (Contracts) Act 1997.
Both Bedminster Down and Henbury schools are transferring from a single academy trust to Multi-Academy Trusts:
?- Bedminster Down to Wellsway (actual transfer date 1 Dec. 2018); and
? - Henbury to the Greenshaw Learning Trust (proposed transfer date 1st September 2019.
The Deed of Variation agreed with the PFI contractor is a ‘Multi Deed’ which sets up an agreement with the PFI contractor that future academy transfers can be done as a matter of correspondence under this Deed of Variation and therefore reducing any legal fees to a minimum. To accommodate this transfer a deed of variation is required to the PFI Project Agreement; this is a simple change of address for the academy and is mainly required for the PFI Project Agreement to ensure that the school is covered under the contract insurance and is identified contractually as an Authority Related Party.
Similarly the addresses in School Agreements between the Council and the Schools are to be updated; the School Agreement passes down various responsibilities under the Project Agreement from the Council to the schools.

To put in place a Multi-Transfer Deed of Variation for the Bristol Schools PFI Phase 1A contract to allow the transfer of Bedminster Down and Henbury schools to transfer from single academy status to multi-academy trusts.
The Deed of Variation is required to ensure that the Academies are recorded as Authority Representatives under the Project Agreement which brings the Academies under the obligations of the PFI contract which will be in place until 2031 and ensures that any future academy transfer under this contract can be done as a matter of correspondence under this Deed of Variation and therefore reducing any future legal fees to a minimum.

There is limited remaining burial space at South Bristol Cemetery. This project development work is necessary so that Cabinet can make an informed decision in 2020 on how to best progress with proposals to expand South Bristol Cemetery.

To undertake initial design work and technical studies for the expansion of South Bristol Cemetery.

To accelerate the provision of housing to meet the Mayors target of building 2000 homes a year – 800 affordable a year by 2020.

To enter into a contract with Wilmot Dixon Ltd to provide
a design and build development for three sites on the HRA development sites in Lawrence Weston The site will be brought forward for residential development. This award is for the first stage of the process (RIBA stages 1 – 4) and to achieve a satisfactory planning Consent

On 7th May 2019 (agenda item 15): “Cabinet authorised the Executive Director, Growth & Regeneration in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing to procure multi-disciplinary design teams to submit detailed planning applications of new facilities for St Bernadette’s Rugby Club and the 21st (Gladstone) Scout Group

To enter into two contracts with Kier Ltd via SCAPE Minor Works Framework to submit detailed planning applications of new rugby facilities at Fulford Road for St Bernadette’s Rugby Club

Because bids were not appended to the Cabinet reports against which these decisions were made, it has not previously been stated how the funding received will be divided between the two bus operating companies who are BCC’s partners in this project.

* That the £2,214,800 funding received by Bristol City Council under the Clean Bus Technology Fund from national government’s JAQU (Joint Air Quality Unit) will be divided between First West of England and CTPlus bus operating companies according to the allocations approved in the bid, and for those specific pieces of work.
* The amount due to First is £2,020,800. Of this total, £922,800 was transferred in August 2018. A further transfer of £1,098,000 will be made in July 2019.
* The amount due to CTPlus is £194,000, of which £171,180 was transferred in August 2018.
* A further £2.48m of funding was granted as an extension of the above funding in March 2019. It is anticipated that £2,431,330 of this funding will be allocated to First Bus with £57,000 being allocated to CT Plus during the 2019-20 financial year.
* Both proposals have been approved by BCC Cabinet.