Finance Committee Meeting

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

Record of decisions

Item	Paper No.	Subject	Decisions
1.	FCR(2010-11)10	RECOMMENDATIONS 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)11	HEAD 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)12	CAPITAL 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)13	CAPITAL 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)14	CAPITAL 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