Finance Committee Meeting

held on Friday, 14 May 2010, at 4:30 pm

Record of decisions

ItemPaper No.SubjectDecisions
1.FCR(2010-11)10RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT SUBCOMMITTEE MADE ON 28 APRIL 2010 -

Approved

EC(2010-11)1
  • Proposed retention of three supernumerary posts of one Administrative Officer Staff Grade B (D3) from 1 April 2011 to 31 July 2012 and one Administrative Officer Staff Grade C (D2) from 9 October 2010 to 30 June 2013 in the Financial Services Branch of Government Secretariat: Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and one Deputy Principal Solicitor (DL2)/non-civil service position at DL2-equivalent from 16 October 2010 to 30 June 2013 in the Companies Registry to cope with the additional workload arising from the rewrite of the Companies Ordinance and other reviews

Approved

EC(2010-11)2
  • Proposed retention of two supernumerary posts of one Principal Government Engineer (D3) and one Chief Engineer (D1); and extension of the redeployment of one permanent post of Chief Engineer (D1) of the Major Works Project Management Office; for a period of four years from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2014 in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Project Management Office of the Highways Department to sustain the implementation of the Hong Kong- Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and related highway infrastructure projects

Approved

EC(2010-11)3
  • Proposed creation of two supernumerary posts of one Principal Government Engineer (D3) and one Administrative Officer Staff Grade C (D2) in Home Affairs Bureau of the Government Secretariat with effect from 1 July 2010 up to 31 March 2015 to monitor the implementation of the West Kowloon Cultural District project and coordinate the related interface issues

Approved
(Division ordered -
Yes - 26
No - 0
Abstention - 9)

EC(2010-11)4
  • Proposed creation of one permanent post of Principal Transport Officer (D1) in the Bus and Railway Branch of the Transport Department to cope with the increasing complexity of inter-modal coordination

Approved

2.FCR(2010-11)11HEAD 62 - HOUSING DEPARTMENT
Subhead 700 General non-recurrent
New Item "Special rent payment for public housing tenants"

HEAD 170 - SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Subhead 700 General non-recurrent
New Item "Additional provision for social security recipients"

HEAD 173 - STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AGENCY
Subhead 700 General non-recurrent
New Item "One-off support grant for needy students in the 2010/11 school year"


Approved

3.FCR(2010-11)12CAPITAL WORKS RESERVE FUND
HEAD 710 - COMPUTERISATION
Department of Justice
New Subhead "Implementation of a Verified, Authenticated and Searchable Electronic Database of Hong Kong Legislation"


Approved

4.FCR(2010-11)13CAPITAL WORKS RESERVE FUND
HEAD 710 - COMPUTERISATION
Hong Kong Police Force
New Subhead "Development of the Second Generation of Communal Information System"


Approved

5.FCR(2010-11)14CAPITAL WORKS RESERVE FUND
HEAD 710 - COMPUTERISATION
Hong Kong Police Force
New Subhead "Enhancement of the Information Technology Infrastructure by Using Virtual Workstation (Initial Implementation)"


Approved