At the meeting officers said extra signs would be placed around the roadworks to warn motorists and temporary traffic lights would be controlled manually to ensure traffic was kept moving.
The ministers are meeting 10 days after their heads of government agreed to use the bloc's temporary bailout funds to recapitalize Spain's ailing financial system and to set up a joint supervisory body for the area's lenders.
At a special council meeting of the Liberal Democrat cabinet, councillors agreed the secondary school would be on a temporary site in a building previously used by the Environment Agency and Defra on Burghill Road, Brentry, for one year.