Internal memo John Irvine From: Director of Network Services TransportNI 90 540462 Tel: 2 April 2015 Date: To: Divisional Managers cc: Peter May Damien McQuillan Andrew Murray Mark McPeak John McNeill Terry Deehan Pat Doherty HQ NS PPTOs Alan McMurray David Keenan David Weir Colin Brown Aileen Gault Gary Quinn Arnold Hamilton Harold Henry Colin Sykes Liam McEvoy (re para 32) Jonathan Saulters (re para 32) Brian Maxwell PRIORITISATION OF ROADS, BRIDGES AND STREET LIGHTING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS 2015/16 GUIDANCE TO DIVISIONS – The purpose of this paper is to detail the arrangements within TransportNI to manage Resource pressures in 2015/16. Background The Resource budget available to TransportNI for road maintenance, street lighting maintenance and street lighting energy is £12.8M. The requirement for energy in 15/16 is £11.1M with an associated requirement of £2.5M for the statutory inspection of street lights. Effectively, we are starting the year with a negative budget for the remaining maintenance activities. Given that the outturn in 14/15 in estimated at over £40M and was as high as £50M in previous years, the scale of the pressure we are facing is stark. My submission to the Minister dated 23 March 2015 set out this position and a proposal for a skeleton service to be taken forward into 15/16 ( this is attached at
Internal memo From: John Irvine Director of Network Services TransportNI Tel: 90 540462 Date: 2 April 2015 To: Divisional Managers Damien McQuillan Mark McPeak cc: Peter May Andrew Murray John McNeill Terry Deehan Pat Doherty HQ NS PPTOs Alan McMurray David Keenan David Weir Colin Brown Aileen Gault Gary Quinn Arnold Hamilton Harold Henry Colin Sykes Liam McEvoy (re para 32) Jonathan Saulters (re para 32) Brian Maxwell PRIORITISATION OF ROADS, BRIDGES AND STREET LIGHTING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS 2015/16 – GUIDANCE TO DIVISIONS The purpose of this paper is to detail the arrangements within TransportNI to manage Resource pressures in 2015/16. Background The Resource budget available to TransportNI for road maintenance, street lighting maintenance and street lighting energy is £12.8M. The requirement for energy in 15/16 is £11.1M with an associated requirement of £2.5M for the statutory inspection of street lights. Effectively, we are starting the year with a negative budget for the remaining maintenance activities. Given that the outturn in 14/15 in estimated at over £40M and was as high as £50M in previous years, the scale of the pressure we are facing is stark. My submission to the Minister dated 23 March 2015 set out this position and a proposal for a skeleton service to be taken forward into 15/16 ( this is attached at
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