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.