Agenda item

To receive a report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods which updates Members on both the capital and revenue elements of the Committee’s Well-being budget, advises Members of the Small Grants approved since the last meeting and invites Members to determine the capital and revenue proposals detailed within the report.

(Executive Function)

(5 mins presentation / 5 mins discussion) 

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the report and information appended to the report which includes the available balance of the Area Committee’s revenue and capital well-being budgets, be noted;

(b)  That the small grant proposals approved since the last meeting of the Area Committee be noted;

(c)  That the proposed commissioning approach and allocation of the Area Committee’s well-being funds for 2009/10 to Area Delivery Plan themes, be approved; 

(d)  That the well-being applications approved in principle at the Area Committee meeting on 2^nd April 2009, be ratified (well-being applications at this meeting were subject to confirmation of the well-being allocation by the Executive Board); and

(e)  That the following decisions be made in relation to the Well-being funding proposals which had been submitted for determination at the meeting:-

• Youth Service – Beeston Old Library Youth Group – £1,800 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Middleton Elderly Aid – Additional Gardens – £3,910 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Belle Isle Elderly Winter Aid – Belle Isle Garden Scheme – £2,125 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Re’new – Middleton Regeneration Partnership – £8,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved, subject to breakdown of costs;
• Out of School Activities Team – Friday Night Project – South Leeds –  £3,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Out of School Activities Team – Friday Night Project – Middleton –  £3,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• West Yorkshire Police – Operation CASAC – £5,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – To be commissioned through funding allocated to the Thriving Places theme of the ADP;
• Area Management Team – Photocopier – contribution to rental charge – £2,483 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Deferred to receive further information;
• Friends of Cross Flatts Park – Summer activities in Cross Flatts Park – £5,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Safer Leeds – Leasowe Alleygating Scheme – £5,539 (2009/10 Capital Budget) and £110 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved in principle, subject to obtaining costs relating to re-siting of letterboxes;
• Joseph Priestley College – Old Cockburn Centre Renovation Project – £4,350 (2009/10 Capital Budget) – Approved;
• West Yorkshire Police – Bright Ideas – CCTV for Middleton Circus – £9,000 (2009/10 Capital Budget) and £25,000 Revenue over five years (£5,000 allocated towards 2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved in principle, subject to outcome of the Bright Ideas event and consideration of the deployment of the mobile CCTV unit.

The Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods submitted a report which invited Members to consider a proposed approach to the commissioning of activities linked to outcomes identified in the Area Delivery Plan (ADP).  The report also updated Members on both the capital and revenue elements of the Committee’s Well-being budget, advised the Committee of the small grants approved since the last meeting and invited Members to determine the capital and revenue proposals, as detailed within the report.

In relation to the capital well-being allocation, it was advised that the City & Hunslet ward pot was earmarked for improvements to Hunslet Library.

Following a brief discussion relating to the proposals for Well-being funding which had been submitted to the meeting for determination, it was

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the report and information appended to the report which includes the available balance of the Area Committee’s revenue and capital well-being budgets, be noted;

(b)  That the small grant proposals approved since the last meeting of the Area Committee be noted;

(c)  That the proposed commissioning approach and allocation of the Area Committee’s well-being funds for 2009/10 to Area Delivery Plan themes, be approved; 

(d)  That the well-being applications approved in principle at the Area Committee meeting on 2^nd April 2009, be ratified (well-being applications at this meeting were subject to confirmation of the well-being allocation by the Executive Board); and

(e)  That the following decisions be made in relation to the Well-being funding proposals which had been submitted for determination at the meeting:-

• Youth Service – Beeston Old Library Youth Group – £1,800 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Middleton Elderly Aid – Additional Gardens – £3,910 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Belle Isle Elderly Winter Aid – Belle Isle Garden Scheme – £2,125 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Re’new – Middleton Regeneration Partnership – £8,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved, subject to breakdown of costs;
• Out of School Activities Team – Friday Night Project – South Leeds –  £3,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Out of School Activities Team – Friday Night Project – Middleton –  £3,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• West Yorkshire Police – Operation CASAC – £5,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – To be commissioned through funding allocated to the Thriving Places theme of the ADP;
• Area Management Team – Photocopier – contribution to rental charge – £2,483 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Deferred to receive further information;
• Friends of Cross Flatts Park – Summer activities in Cross Flatts Park – £5,000 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved;
• Safer Leeds – Leasowe Alleygating Scheme – £5,539 (2009/10 Capital Budget) and £110 (2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved in principle, subject to obtaining costs relating to re-siting of letterboxes;
• Joseph Priestley College – Old Cockburn Centre Renovation Project – £4,350 (2009/10 Capital Budget) – Approved;
• West Yorkshire Police – Bright Ideas – CCTV for Middleton Circus – £9,000 (2009/10 Capital Budget) and £25,000 Revenue over five years (£5,000 allocated towards 2009/10 Revenue Budget) – Approved in principle, subject to outcome of the Bright Ideas event and consideration of the deployment of the mobile CCTV unit.