Issue - meetings

To consider a funding request for software upgrades to allow for the continued transfer of planning data from Redditch Borough Council to central Government, failure to do which could result in the Council incurring fines.

(Report attached)

Members considered a report requesting funding for an urgent upgrade to the Council’s IT software.

Officers reported that the upgrades required had been identified as necessary and would have been included in a capital bid in the financial year 2012/13.

Members were informed that changes to procedures and data transfer formats in communicating data between Central and Local Government meant that the urgency of upgrading the software had increased and would avoid the risk of defaulting on a Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) contract and incurring a fine.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         a sum of £22,350 be allocated in the 2011/12 Capital Programme to enable the necessary IT upgrades and the Capital Programme be amended accordingly; and subject to which

RESOLVED that

2)         authority be given for expenditure of up to the sum detailed in 1), above, for the reasons summarised in this report.