At last night’s Scrutiny Committee meeting, members voted to recommend the Isle of Wight council Executive reconsider their decision on the Capital Contingency Fund (paper embedded below) made at a meeting on 9th September.
Readers who followed OnTheWight’s live coverage of last night’s meeting heard an amendment tabled by Cllr Geoff Lumley to the recommendation made by Cllr Bob Blezzard (who led the call-in) to exclude five items from the deferment.
Cllr Lumley suggested the following items not be affected by any deferment of decision-making (although they had already been put on hold once the call-in was lodged with the council last month):
- Beaulieu House boiler,
- procurement of new Cowes Floating Bridge,
- Housing Disabled Facilities Grant top up,
- vehicle for facilities and property dept and
- Elmdon residential home for adults with learning disabilities.
Defer decision on spending for other items
The recommendation called for the Executive to defer their decision on allocating spending for :
- Totland Seawall repairs,
- Undercliff Drive options to allow residents to return to their landlocked homes,
- Drainage/attenuation tank works at Cemetery Road Binstead and
- ‘Closed landfill sites’
It was suggested the items be deferred until the Executive were fully informed on possible expenditure for Shanklin Cliff lift and Shanklin Railway Cutting/Rush Close landslip. It was accepted that costs associated with Cowes Enterprise College were complex and should not hold up other items being moved forward.
This motion was voted through and the recommendation will be considered by the Isle of Wight Executive on Tuesday 9th October.
