Decision details

In the 2023-24 Quarter 4 Finance and Performance Improvement Report that was presented to the Mayor and members of cabinet on 19th June 2024 it referred to an underspend of £3.1m on the general fund which enables the Council to allocate resources to provide targeted funding towards priorities, which have been identified by our residents. In addition, a further £0.2m is available following a review of earmarked reserves.

One of these priorities is £800,000 targeted towards road resurfacing, this funding is in addition to the 2023/24 and 2024/25 Network North Roads Re-surfacing Fund of £1.6m for the 2 years, matching the
annual allocation with CDC funding. This funding will be allocated on the same basis as the Network North Roads Re-surfacing Fund and approved in the quarterly Finance & Performance Improvement
report.

This was fully approved at cabinet on 19th June 2024.

Approval of:
• The draw down 2023/24Underspend Ear Marked Reserve.

• Allocation of £800k Ear Marked Reserve for Highways Maintenance, to be used on the maintenance of local roads within the City of Doncaster which consist of:
o Identify individual sites for carriageway permanent patching.
o Resurfacing of local / urban estate roads, identified on a worst first basis
o Robust & permanent carriageway patching.

• Approval to add new schemes to the Capital Programme for 2024/25.

Not to accept the £800k ear marked reserve for highway maintenance would not be viable as the service area is already underfunded and requires an influx of over £150m to remove the existing non-funded build-up of maintenance works to carriageways.

In view of the existing non-funded works situation this option has been rejected.