Decision details

(i)         Authorises the extension of the contracts of two of the four incumbent Civil Enforcement Agents by one year, noting the rationale for doing so set out in the background to this report;

(ii)        Delegates authority to the Strategic Director, Regeneration and Environment, in consultation with the Lead Member for Environment, to select which two Civil Enforcement Agent providers should have their contracts extended and varied;

(iii)       Delegates authority to the Strategic Director, Regeneration and Environment to decide whether to extend the contracts of the two successful Agents by an additional year in 2017, aligning the contracts with the council’s main Parking Management and Enforcement Contract as explained in 3.20;

(iv)       Endorses the method proposed for selecting which two of the four existing contracts to extend, as set out in paragraph 3.21;

(v)        Agrees to the proposed variation of the contracts with two Civil Enforcement Agents to include the matters detailed in paragraphs 3.19 to 3.24; and

(vi)       Agrees to the implementation of a new process and dedicated resource for the early write-off of unrecoverable debt following a determination of the likelihood of collection, as set out in paragraphs 3.13 and 3.29.