Mayor's Report to the Assembly, \(Date of Meeting\)
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Item 03 Appendix A Mayor’s Report to the Assembly, 25th February 2004 Background Document – List of Decisions recorded between 8 January 2004 to 11 February 2004 Ref Decision Date Approved by Policy Director/ Financial Implications Comments Mayoral Adviser MA1332 To approve a conference at City Hall 28/1/04 Ken Livingstone Redmond O’Neill The cost of £32,000 will be for representatives of the Irish met from the Project community in London –proposed Development Fund date April 2004 MA1367 To approve the award of £50,000 by 27/1/04 Ken Livingstone Lee Jasper The cost of £50,000 will be way of funding to the Black met from the Stakeholder Londoners Forum in 2003/04 and budget authorise the funding agreement Item 03 Appendix A MA1426 To approve: 14/1/04 Ken Livingstone Neale Coleman The funding of £84,750 will 1. the funding of £84,750 (and an be met from the following additional £25,000 in value in budgets: kind benefits) to a UK Athletics • a virement of £45,000 flagship event, LONDON Grand from the P&P directorate Prix, to be held at Crystal Palace to the Marketing budget on 30 July 2004. The funding will within the Chief be provided to Fast Track Events Executive Overall budget. Ltd, a sports marketing agency • £15,250 from the who organise all athletics events Marketing budget on behalf of UK athletics. (Note • £4,500 from the Mayor’s that the provision of the funding Event Budget. is conditional upon the venue for • £20,000 from the LDA the event being confirmed as Crystal Palace). 2. a virement of £45,000 from the Policy and Partnership Directorate to the Chief Executive’s Office (Marketing team) in 2003/04 to part fund the GLA contribution. Item 03 Appendix A MA1467 To approve: 19/1/04 Ken Livingstone John Duffy The cost of £390,500 will 1. the Project Initiation be met as follows: Document for the London Carry forward of £33,500 Development Database from 2002/03, Project, which will deliver a LDD budgets of £103,500 system capable of capturing in 2003/04 and 2004/05, and analysing the information £75,000 in 2002/03 and required to monitor the 2004/05 from the ODPM spatial development of Planning Delivery Grant. London and policies contained in the London Plan 2. the undertaking of an EU procurement process in order to select a software supplier to deliver the London Development Database 3. to note the total project budget of £390,500 and agree to adjust the 2003/04 and draft 2004/05 budgets to ensure that the full project budget is held by the Technology Group 4. the London Development Database Information Scheme for the collection of information from the London local authorities to monitor the London Plan Item 03 Appendix A MA1468 To approve: 21/1/04 Ken Livingstone Lee Jasper The cost of £35,800 will be 1. a project to provide tactile met as follows: orientation maps for London’s £20,000 Human Resources Living Room and portable £8,000 Public Liaison tactile maps of the interior of £7,800 Executive Director City Hall Corporate Services budget 2. virements of £20,000 from the Human Resources health and safety budget, £8,000 from the Public Liaison Unit’s budget and £7,800 from the Executive Director of Corporate Services consultancy fees budget to finance the project 3. the waiver of the requirements of the Contracts Code of Practice to under take a mini- tendering exercise and approves the award of the proposed contract to Ann Gardiner Item 03 Appendix A MA1507 To approve 9/2/04 Ken Livingstone Lee Jasper The total cost of the 2003 1. The timetable for the reports and the 2004 production of both the reports falling into the Mayor’s Annual Report and 2003/04 financial year is the Annual Equalities Report estimated to be £178,000, for 2004 together with their and this will be met from respective summaries; the the existing budgets for the Best Value Performance Plan Annual Report and (BVPP) GLA summary and the Equalities Reports BVPP GLA group summary (£81,000), the contingency 2. The process for the (£57,000), and virements production of the two reports from the Best Value budget 3. Virements totaling £40,000, and Finance and to cover costs associated with Performance consultancy the 2003 report and use of budget (£40,000). the contingency to cover costs associated with the 2004 report Item 03 Appendix A MA1515 To agree: 2/2/04 Ken Livingstone Decision taken at There are no direct cost 1. revisions to existing Mayor’s implications administrative and Management operational arrangements to Board improve efficiency and negotiation with contractors to achieve enhancements to the current system of Mayoral correspondence and the PLU 2. that the RTL system be reviewed in conjunction with TfL’s review of their contact points 3. clarification be sought from the Data Protection Commission on sharing information with functional bodies in respect of Mayoral correspondence and appropriate guidance be issued to staff dealing with correspondence 4. that in order to comply with the Freedom of Information legislation proposals be developed to deal with : - the Authority’s knowledge management requirements - all the Authority’s correspondence Item 03 Appendix A MA1531 To agree in principle to a transfer of 10/02/04 Ken Livingstone Eleanor Young The proposed GLA annual the TRAVL database and related contribution to the service survey programme to ALG. in 2004/05 is £10,000 and this will be met from the London Plan budget. MA1549 To approve the Mayor’s Question 27/1/04 Ken Livingstone Redmond O’Neill The cost of £20,000 will be Time for Schools and Colleges Event met from the Project – Proposed date July 2004 Development Fund MA1556 To approve the extension to the 27/1/04 Ken Livingstone John Duffy The estimated contract Heritage Warden Service Contract value for 2004/05 is with Capes UK Security Services Ltd £339,650 and will be met for a period of two years from 1 April from the Squares 2004 to 31 March 2006 Management budget Item 03 Appendix A MA1559 To approve: 27/1/04 Ken Livingstone Eleanor Young The total cost of the 1. the purchase from Landmark contract will be shared Information Group (by way of between the GLA and LDA a licence agreement) of as follows: Geographic Information GLA - £27,334 funded from System (GIS) datasets of the London Plan London wide Unitary programme budget Development Plan (“ UDP”) LDA - £27,334 land designations, including updates for the first 12 months from the date of the licence 2. that this is an exception to the Contracts Code of Practise (which would normally require an advertised tender for contracts above £50,000) because Landmark is the only supplier of this specialist services. Item 03 Appendix A MA1567 To approve: 10/02/04 Ken Livingstone Neale Coleman The draft 2004/05 1. £50,000 from the corporate corporate training budget training budget towards the includes the provision of design and delivery of a £50,000 for the management development management development programme, to commence in training programme. The July 2004 corporate training budget 2. award the contract to the will be subject to approval preferred supplier following in Feb 2004, as part of the an advertised competitive Mayor’s overall budget. tendering exercise. 3. award contract for one year with the option to extend for a further period of not more than two years. MA1572 To approve: 2/2/04 Ken Livingstone John Duffy The cost of £10,000 will be 1. a contribution of £10,000 vired from the ‘Market towards a feasibility study for Taskforce’ project within an Eco-Park at the Welsh the Environment Harp in Brent Programme budget to a 2. the reallocation of the new budget line entitled 2003/04 Environment the ‘Welsh Harp Project’. Programme budget to The ‘Market Taskforce’ transfer the £10,000 project will be deferred until allocated for ‘Market 2004/05. Taskforce’ to the ‘Welsh Harp project’ and defer the ‘Market Taskforce’ project to the 2004/05 budget Item 03 Appendix A MA1573 To agree to conduct a Children’s and 3/2/04 Ken Livingstone Murziline The cost of £35,000 will be Young People’s Survey at an Parchment met from the Public estimated cost of £35,000 Consultation (£20,000) and Children and Young People’s Programme Budget (£15,000) MA1574 To establish a scheme to recognise 3/2/04 Ken Livingstone Neale Coleman There is no specific and honour Londoners or provision in the budget to organisations within the Greater cover the costs of these London area, citizens of the UK and awards. However, the direct people of any other nationalities, costs commemorative items whose actions or achievements bring are not expected to be distinction to London and promote significant and will be met its economic, social and from existing budgets environmental development and improvement and the recognition of who’s achievements will enhance London’s reputation. The scheme will be called the “Freedom of Greater London” awards MA1576 To approve that the GLA run a 19/1/04 Ken Livingstone Mark Watts The cost of £250,000 will second promotional campaign for be met from a grant from London wide vehicle emissions the Department of testing with a total budget of Transport £250,000, provided by the Department of Transport. This will advertise the 300 MOT testing stations that have agreed to support the Mayor by offering discounted exhaust emissions checks and any necessary rectification work.