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Minutes:
The Committee received a report from the Community Funding &
Development Manager.
The report gave an update on the work of the review to date and
proposals for the next steps of the information gathering exercise.
The Committee were
also provided with a list of community facilities identified to date across the
city that were invited to complete a survey and a map of those that had
responded to the facility audit.
The Committee made the following comments in response to the report:
i.
The community facilities map needed to be kept up
to date otherwise it would just be a snapshot.
ii.
Mental health facilities were being cut across the city, those that remained were hidden away. It would be
helpful to map these facilities as a signpost for people to find them.
In response to Members’ comments the Community Funding & Development
Manager said that the map information is an issue. Consideration needs to be
made regards data protection, keeping information up to date and the resources
to do this.
In response to Members’ comments the Community Funding & Development
Manager said that data management would be reviewed in future and undertook to
liaise with area committees as appropriate.
Members of the public asked a number of questions, as set out below.
1. Ms Drapper said that Foodcycle were looking for a new venue.
The Community Funding & Development
Manager said that officers would liaise with the applicant if an expression of
interest was submitted.
2. Mr Carpen raised the following
points about the map of community facilities:
i.
Would it be
available on line?
ii.
Would it include
responses from school students?
iii.
Suggested keeping
the map up to date by getting people to come to council events and giving feedback.
This was one of the aims of the former ‘Be the Change’ initiative. People could
also respond through ‘Cambridgeshire.Net’.
The Community Funding & Development
Manager said
i.
Some community facility details included personal
information. The intention was to put a list of facilities on-line once
permission to publish people’s contact details had been obtained. (Contact
details were obtained during the community facility mapping process). Further
details would be set out in the report going to Community Services Scrutiny
Committee 30 June 2016.
ii.
There would be engagement with young people in
future regarding community facilities. They could also respond to the on-line
survey now.
3. Considerable
support and thanks was expressed by both the committee and members of the
public in this project.
Following discussion, Members unanimously resolved to:
i.
Note the work of the review and initial findings of
the city-wide community facilities audit.
ii.
Promote the ‘call for evidence’ stage of the review
and encourage stakeholders to feed in their experience and evidence as detailed
in sections 5 and 6 of the Officer’s report.