RESOLVED that,
subject to the necessary budgetary approvals of the full Council, as detailed at recommendations 6) and 7) below,
1) a programme of replacement of and installation of one new cremator, complete with mercury abatement equipment, at a current cost in the region of £575,000, be carried out;
2) a programme of civil works be undertaken to improve the public and staff areas of the crematorium buildings, at a cost of £380,000;
3) a defined study be carried out in relation to energy recovery and re-use for both internal and external purposes;
4) specialist and technical support be employed to assist the Bereavement Services Manager with the management and implementation of this project, at a cost of £32,500;
5) expenditure of up to the total sum approved by the Council, for the purposes defined in the report, be approved in accordance with Standing Order 41; and
RECOMMENDED that
6) the Council, if it is established that it is economically viable to recover waste energy and to re-use it for internal and external purposes, implement the recommended programmes for such re-use. Initial research indicates that internal re-use will be economically viable so a sum of £70,000 has been included in the Capital Programme for this aspect of the project.
7) up to £757,500 be allocated from the Capital Programme for the purposes indicated in the report; and
8) the Capital Programme be amended accordingly.