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Letter from Minister for Infrastructure to EHI Panel re Proposed Budget 2025-2028 Review - 28 October 2024

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19-21 Broad Street | St Helier Jersey | JE2 3RR

Deputy Hilary Jeune

Chair, Environment, Housing and Infrastructure Scrutiny Panel

BY EMAIL

28th October 2024

Dear Chair,

RE: Proposed Budget 2025-2028 Review

Thank you for your letter dated 21st October 2024 following on from the Budget 2025-2028 Hearing on 16th October.

I have addressed the points from your letter below.

  1. Provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each year of the Budget under the estates heading Major Refurbishment and Upgrades' to show what works are included in the programme for each year.

The anticipated forward plan for the Major Refurbishment and Upgrades budget include the following sites and projects:

Brexit Border Control Facilities

Town Market Roof Refurbishment  

Harve des Pas Lido upgrade

SOJP HQ Custody Floor  

Bel Royal Toilets refurbishment

Highlands College refurbishment

Victoria College Scout Hall demolition

Janvrin School roof upgrade

Springfield Stadium roof upgrade

Haut de La Garenne roof upgrade

Victoria College De Carteret Building refurbishment

Enid Quenault Health & wellbeing centre roof upgrade

Howard Davis Farm refurbishment

Decarbonisation of Property Estate - Various sites

The nature of managing a varied and aging estate is that sudden unexpected events may require more immediate and unplanned interventions and so the anticipated programme may flex over the period 2025-2028 and should not be regarded at this early stage as set.

  1. Detail the works which will be carried out by Jersey Property Holdings at Highlands College as part of work titled Highlands Repairs' in your letter dated 29 August 2024. To include how much this will cost and when the work will be complete.

Currently the estimated costed works for Highlands and budgets for 2024-28 look like this;

Year

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

Total

Highlands Condition upgrade costs

 

£957,763

£892,074

£324,990

£17,584

£2,192,411

JPH - Major Refurbishments and Upgrades

£1,450,000

£1,000,000

£2,500,000

£2,460,000

 

£7,410,000

Highlands College and University College

 

 

£1,040,000

£180,000

£205,000

£1,425,000

The proposed re-profile is suggested as follows;

Year

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

Total

Highlands Condition upgrade costs

 

£957,763

£892,074

£324,990

£17,584

£2,192,411

JPH - Other Major Refurbishments and Upgrades

£1,450,000

£500,000

£2,190,163

£2,460,000

 

£6,600,163

JPH - Highlands Major Refurbishment and Upgrade

£500,000

£309,837

 

 

£809,837

Highlands College and University College

 

£457,763

£582,237

£324,990

£60,010

£1,425,000

The re-profiling allows for the Highlands works to be undertaken in a timely manner and allows for a small contingency at the end of the period to cover any additional or abnormal costs.

  1. Clarify whether changes will be required to the level of funding available to Jersey Property Holdings should their portfolio of school estates increase as a result of changes to Service Level Agreements with CYPES.

CYPES currently have tenant obligations for maintenance in the buildings that they use; schools, children's homes and offices. There is ongoing work in the Treasury to balance the requirement between tenant responsibilities and landlord tasks, particularly as the re-tendered Preventative Planned Maintenance is renewed for the next 5 years which will be in line with the new corporate Landlord Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

I hope this information is helpful to the Panel. If there is any further information required, then please do not hesitate to get in contact.

Yours sincerely,

Connétable Andy Jehan

Minister for Infrastructure

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