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Contact: Rhodri Jones 01286 679325
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WELCOME AND APOLOGIES |
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DECLARATION OF PERSONAL INTEREST To receive any declarations of Personal Interest |
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URGENT BUSINESS |
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MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING PDF 202 KB The Chair
shall propose that the minutes of the meeting held on 14 June 2024 be signed as
a true record. |
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NORTH WALES GROWTH DEAL - QUARTER 1 PERFORMANCE AND RISK REPORT PDF 246 KB Hedd
Vaughan-Evans (Head of Operations) to present the report. Additional documents:
Decision: 1. To
consider and note the Quarter 1 Performance Report and updated Portfolio Risk
Register. 2. To
approve the Quarter 1 Performance Report to the Welsh Government and UK
Government, as well as the local authority scrutiny committees. |
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NWEAB'S STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR 2023/24 PDF 516 KB Dewi A
Morgan (Statutory Finance Officer) and Sian Pugh (Host Authority Assistant Head
of Finance) to present the report. Additional documents: Decision: To
accept and note the Ambition Board's Draft Statement of Accounts (subject to
audit) for 2023/24. |
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ANNUAL GOVERNANCE STATEMENT PDF 210 KB Hedd
Vaughan Jones (Head of Operations) to present the report. Additional documents: Decision: To
accept and approve the Annual Governance Statement. |
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LPWAN (LOW-POWER, WIDE-AREA NETWORK) - BUSINESS JUSTIFICATION CASE PDF 383 KB Stuart Whitfield
(Digital Programme Manager) to present the report. Additional documents: Decision: 1. That the Board approve the Business
Justification Case for the LPWAN project and authorise the Portfolio Director,
in consultation with the Chair, Vice-Chair, Section 151 Officer and the
Monitoring Officer to procure and establish the required frameworks for the
delivery of the project, subject to the Portfolio Management Office addressing
the outstanding issues set out in section 7.1 of the report. 2. That the Board note the
process for accessing funding through the frameworks will involve the
submission of a delivery plan for each local authority area and delegate
authority to the Portfolio Director in consultation with the Lead Member for
the Digital Programme and the Digital Programme Board to approve the delivery
plans and delegate solely to the Portfolio Director the subsequent allocation
of funding through the frameworks. 3. That the Board note that the
LPWAN Business Justification Case is a sub-set of the larger Connected Campus
project from which funding will be allocated and agree to the principle that
any underspend within the LPWAN project budget is ringfenced to the Connected
Campus project in the first instance. |
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EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC The Chair shall propose that the press and public be excluded
from the meeting during the discussions on the following items due to the
likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 14 of Schedule
12A of the Local Government Act 1972 Information relating to the financial or
business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that
information). There is an acknowledged public interest in openness in relation
to the use of public resources and related financial issues. It is also
acknowledged that there are occasions, in order to protect the financial and
commercial interests that matters related to such information need to be
discussed without being publicised. The reports deal specifically with financial
and business matters and related discussions. Publication of such commercially
sensitive information could adversely affect the interests of the bodies and
the Councils and undermine the confidence of other Growth Deal participants in
sharing sensitive information for consideration. This would be contrary to the
wider public interest of securing the best overall outcome. |
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CYDNERTH OUTLINE BUSINESS CASE Decision: 1. To
approve the Outline Business Case for the Cydnerth project, subject to Menter
Môn Morlais Cyf, addressing the matters noted in the report, as described in
Section 7.1, and requesting a Full Business Case to be prepared for the Board’s
consideration. 2. To
authorise the Portfolio Director, in consultation with the Host Authority's
Section 151 Officer and the Monitoring Officer, to agree on draft terms in
accordance with the Report as a basis for the final financial arrangements for
the project, which will determine the funding to be agreed by the Board at the
Full Business Case stage. 3. To
note that the proposed funding model for the project is 100% commercial loan,
subject to confirmation of the subsidy control position on approval of the Full
Business Case, and approves in principle that the interest from the loan once
the cost of borrowing payments for the loan element have been paid, is
allocated to a reserve to be used to fund the Portfolio Management Office in
future years. |
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CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY BUSINESS JUSTIFICATION CASE Decision: 1. To
approve the Business Justification Case for the Environmental Biotechnology
Centre and to authorise the Portfolio Director, in consultation with the chair,
the Section 151 Officer and the Monitoring Officer, to agree and enter into a
funding agreement with Bangor University for the delivery of the project,
subject to Bangor University addressing the outstanding issues noted in Section
7 of the Report and securing all necessary internal approvals for the project. 2. To
note that there will be two further procurement steps to deliver the project
and to delegate to the Portfolio Director, in consultation with the Chair,
Vice-chair, Section 151 Officer and the Monitoring Officer to approve
procurement details and allocate prior to releasing funding for these steps. |