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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 County Council had launched a Resilience
Strategy that could tie into community engagement work.
ii.
Suggested community facility information could be
disseminated via an app so people could find information easily.
In response to Members’ comments the Community Funding & Development
Manager said City and County Council Officers were in contact regarding various
strategies, community hubs, libraries etc. The intention was to provide joint
member briefings and to join up approaches.
In response to Members’ comments the Community Funding & Development
Manager was aware of County strategies and said the City and County Council
Officers were in contact regarding various strategies, community hubs,
libraries etc. The intention was to provide joint member briefings and to join
up approaches wherever possible.
A member of the public made a number of comments, as set out below.
1. A member
of the public raised the following points about the map of community
facilities:
i.
There was a demand
for this information.
ii.
Would it be
available on line?
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.
Various ways of publishing the information would be
considered, on-line apps can be included.
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.