Issue - meetings

Community Funding and Development Manager: Jackie Hanson

8.30pm

The Committee received a report from Jackie Hanson, the Community Funding and Development Manager regarding the Area Committee Grants for 2015-16.

The Community Funding and Development Manager responded to questions as follows:

Q1. Councillor Austin questioned who would manage the Christmas lights at Mitcham’s Corner project.

A. The Friends of Mitcham’s Corner would manage the project.

Q2. Councillor Manning questioned the combining of funding aimed at addressing two different objectives: Safer City and Community Grants. He suggested there needed to be greater clarity about which objective projects were addressing.

A. Information on the two priorities was supplied to grant applicants. However, the two budgets had been merged following a decision of the Executive Councillor at a Scrutiny Committee and allocations were not awarded in strictly proportional basis. In addition, many projects addressed both priorities.

Q3. Councillor Pitt questioned why a grant applicant was being awarded a grant when they had returned a grant awarded last year.

A. There are a number of reasons why a grant might be returned, for example, a project not being delivered for various reasons. The applicant had followed procedure in returning the unused grant and this would not make the applicant ineligible to apply again the following year. 

The Committee:

Resolved unanimously:

i.                to agree the proposed awards detailed in Appendix 1 and summarised in the table included in the Officer’s report.