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Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure

The Harbour Board gave consideration to a report in respect of a necessary increase in fees and charges for the forthcoming financial year 2023 / 2024, in order to meet the requirements for the �鶹��Ѱ� and Bute Council Asset Management Plan that had been referenced in the report to the Harbour Board in September 2022.

Decision

The Harbour Board agreed to -

1.    recommend to the Council, when setting the fees and charges for 2023/2024 that it approves an increase to piers and harbours fees and charges of 5%, over and above an inflationary increase which would be ring fenced to develop the Council’s marine infrastructure;

2.    note that this presented a stepped “proposed increase to allow smoothing” over a 10 year period for meeting both the sustainability costs and future improvement costs associated with the marine infrastructure which �鶹��Ѱ� & Bute Council has responsibility for; and

3.    that the asset management plan would continue to be updated on a rolling 10 year basis.

(Reference:�� Report by Executive Director with Responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure dated November 2022, submitted)