Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Efficiency and Innovation
Decision No: D060122MEM
Date: 22nd May 2006
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Medway Valley Line - Community Rail Partnership
Minutes
Endorsement of a recommendation from the Public Transport Panel that the Borough Council should take part in the recently formed Medway Valley Line Community Rail Partnership. Consideration was also given to a request from Action with Communities in Rural Kent for funding towards this initiative and the Rural Transport Partnership.
Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Efficiency and Innovation resolved that:
1) the Public Transport Panel's recommendation to participate in the Medway Valley Line Community Rail Partnership be supported; and
2) funding of £4,000 per year for each of the next three years be confirmed from the allocation for Community Partnerships Initiatives as the Borough Council's contribution towards the Community Rail Partnership and the Rural Transport Partnership, subject to the budget being confirmed for future years.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 22 May 2006.
Signed O Baldock (Cabinet Member for Efficiency and Innovation)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 26 May 2006
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.
In accordance with Paragraph 2, Annex 1 of the Executive Procedure Rules, the Leader nominated the Cabinet Member for Efficiency and Innovation to take this decision in the absence of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation.