The cost of the redevelopment contract for the Guildhall has been confirmed as £15.4 million. This covers only construction work.
To this must be added supervision, legal and fitting out expenses.
The contract was awarded to Vinci Construction on 16th September 2019.
It is expected that the total will be around £20 million but with substantial annual running costs.
The main use will be as a serviced office location although some Council use will be retained.
Sorry to see that weed growth on the east of the City hasn’t been cleared some 3 months after first being reported. Mainly thistles growing in gutters and drainage channels. May (or may not) die back as winter gets a grip. But all is not yet fixed with many public service standards in the City still not up to standard.
The York Council has agreed to spend over £1/3 million on an “integrated Waste Management System & In-Cab Solution” computer system for its waste collection operation.
The contract was let in July to Webaspx
The system gets only a passing reference in a report being considered today on waste collection options.
There has been no report or business case presented to an executive decision session to indicate the expected benefits of the new computer system.
The waste collection service has been subject to considerable criticism recently with bins not being emptied on virtually every day of the week.
The main cause of the fall in service standards have been an aging and unreliable fleet. On some occasions the amount of recycling put out has exceeded the capacity of the existing vehicles.
The Council has remained tight lipped about when (or even if) new refuse lorries will arrive in the City.
