Issue - meetings

The Committee received a report from the Project Officer.

The report provided information on eligibility, funding criteria and funding budgets for the Environmental Improvement Programme.

The Committee made the following comments in response to the report:

      i.          Supported projects in the Officer’s report, in particular:

a.    Community Development Opportunities at Clay Farm Community Garden.

b.    Citywide Happy Bee Street Biodiversity and Habitat Creation Projects.

     ii.          Queried if Councillors could be given a funding allocation eg £5,000 to issue to projects in their ward who met the criteria. Issuing funding from a central pot was a time consuming process.

The Public Realm Engineering & Project Delivery Team Leader said funding allocations were discussed with the Executive Councillor in 2018 and a central pot was deemed to be the way forward as per the current process.