Received a report
proposing the use of corporate underspends from 2003 / 2004 to address pressures
on the Council’s Information Communication Technology (ICT)
infrastructure which have come to light in recent months.
Agreed, in order to maintain the smooth running of ICT to
sustain day-to-day activities, to support the delivery of all
services and avoid the risk of serious disruption to services,
to:
- Additional
expenditure of £1,100,000 in 2004 / 2005 on areas of ICT
infrastructure (as set out in tables 1 and 2 of the report) which
provide support for all council services;
- The use corporate
underspends for 2003 / 2004 to fund
these actions;
- The ICT
infrastructure implications of new projects to be evaluated so as
to ensure funding of renewal and growth on a sustainable budgeting
basis from 2005 / 2006 onwards; and
- An additional
staff resource of 1 full time employee in Information Management
and Technology (IM&T) to ensure that the operating software on
the council’s 3000+ computers are properly updated (as set
out in paragraph 2.7 of the report).