Budget transfer: Town Park Capital Vote

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A decision made 10 December 2012:

Decision Reference: MD-H-2012-0104
Decision Summary Title :	Return of £250,000 from Town Park Project Capital Vote		Date of Decision Summary:	5th December 2012
Decision Summary Author:	Finance Director		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt? (State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title :	Return of £250,000 from Town Park Project Capital Vote		Date of Written Report:	5th December 2012
Written Report Author:	Finance Director		Written Report : Public or Exempt? (State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)	Public
Subject: Capital budget repayment of £250,000 from the Town Park Capital Vote to the Housing Department’s Rolling Vote.
Decision(s): The Minister accepts a budget transfer of £250,000 from the Town Park Capital Vote to the Housing Rolling Vote.
Reason(s) for Decision: The Town Park project had originally been lent £250,000 from the Housing Rolling Vote to act as an additional contingency should the project encounter significant issues. The project is now complete and the contingency was not required. It is therefore appropriate that the budget should be returned to the Housing Rolling Vote.
Resource Implications: The Housing Rolling Vote Capital Head of Expenditure (H00RL10007) will increase by £250,000.
Action required: Finance Director, in liaison with Treasury and Resources, to affect the necessary transfer.
Signature:		Position:
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

Budget transfer: Town Park Capital Vote

Housing Department

Ministerial Decision Report

Return of funds from the Town Park Capital Vote to the Infrastructure Rolling Vote and the Housing Rolling Vote

Purpose of Report

To request the Minister to accept a capital budget transfer of £250,000 to the Housing Department’s Rolling Vote from the Town Park Capital Vote as a return of capital funds upon the completion of the park project.

Background

When the idea for the Millennium Town Park was originally conceived both TTS and Housing contributed £250,000 each from their rolling vote allocations to the project which was being undertaken by Jersey Property Holdings (JPH) for initial feasibility studies and concept designs. This was done under MD-TR-2008-0131.

When the additional funding was granted and the project was moved to TTS this funding was also transferred to act as an emergency contingency on the project. TTS completed the project to an extremely high level within their project budget and thus this £500,000 was left unspent.

Discussion

Given that TTS and Housing originally transferred this £500,000 from their rolling votes to the project it would be appropriate for this remaining budget to be repaid back to these rolling votes.

Recommendation

That the Minister accepts the budget transfer of £250,000 from the Town Park Capital Vote to the Housing Rolling Vote.

Resource Implications

The Housing Rolling Vote Capital Head of Expenditure (H00RL10007) will increase by £250,000.

Housing Department

Report Prepared By: -

Jason English

Senior Management Accountant

……………………………… Date: 2012

Report Checked By: -

J C Hamon

Finance Director

……..………………………. Date: 2012

Authorised By: -

Ian Gallichan

Chief Officer

………………………………. Date 2012