Issue - meetings

(Andrew Loosemore, Head of Highway Asset Management,  Robert Clark, Contract and Commissioning Support Manager and Robin Hadley, Soft Landscape Asset Manager, were in attendance for this item)

(1)         Mr Payne (Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport) introduced the report which asked the cabinet committee to consider and endorse or make recommendations on a proposed decision to procure, and to delegate authority to the Corporate Director for Growth, Environment and Transport to award and enter into appropriate contractual arrangements for the provision of urban grass, shrubs, hedges and rose bed maintenance services.  In response to a question, Mr Jones said the proposed contract took the conversation about the environment into account, and engagement about wildlife reserves on the roadside was already underway with the Kent Wildlife Trust and residents.  Miss Carey said it was important to acknowledge Mr Holden’s role as chairman of the Plan Bee group and said the Highways team had sourced bus shelters which were both affordable and bee friendly.

(2)          RESOLVED to endorse the proposed to decision of the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport to procure and to delegate authority to the Corporate Director for Growth, Environment and Transport to award and enter into appropriate contractual arrangements for the provision of urban grass, shrubs, hedges and rose bed maintenance services including any potential extension periods in accordance with the proposals set out in the report.