Agenda item

This report provides the Community Committee with an update on the budget position for the Wellbeing Fund, Youth Activity Fund, Capital Budget, as well as the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget for 2024/25.

The report of the Head of Locality Partnerships provided the Community Committee with an update on the budget position for the Wellbeing Fund, Youth Activity Fund, Capital Budget, as well as the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget for 2024/25.

The Locality Officer presented the report and informed the Community Committee of the following:

·  Members were asked to review the minimum conditions for the Committee as set out at Paragraph 14 of the submitted report and either amend or agree them.

·  The Committee has a remaining Wellbeing balance of £78,943.09. A full breakdown of the projects was listed in Table 1 of the report.

·  Since the last meeting on March 11^th, the Committee had made delegated decisions on two projects, no projects had been declined.

·  Monitoring information on all projects had been collected and was available on request.

·  The Committee had a balance of £36,484.54 in the Youth Activity Fund and Table 2 of the submitted report provided a breakdown of projects to date.

·  It was proposed that the Community Committee would have a Small Grants and Skips Budget of £6,500.00 and Table 3 in the report showed the projects allocated to date.

·  The Outer North West Community Committee has a remaining capital budget of £33,191.80 available to spend. Members were asked to note the capital allocation broken down by ward and summarised in Table 4.

·  The Committee was asked to note that there is a remaining balance of £346,769.09 in the CIL Budget. Table 5 summarised the allocation per ward. It was noted that the CIL budget for Horsforth goes to the Horsforth Town Council.

·  Members were asked to consider the projects listed at Paragraphs 30 to 43 of the submitted report.

Members discussions included:

·  It was noted that the YAF budget would be split four ways between the wards. However, if there was money left by December 2024, this amount would be put back into the fund, for projects to be considered by the Children and Families Sub-Group.

·  Members requested monitoring information from organisations applying for funding, as to where people were travelling from to attend the projects. Members suggested that the Locality Officer could advise future applicants that this information would be requested by the Members of the Committee before they considered funding projects. It was the view of the Councillors that this would assist them to evidence how the projects were benefitting residents and identify any gaps in wards. 

·  The Ward Members of Otley and Yeadon raised concerns in relation to the costs of CCTV in their ward, given the smaller budget that Community Committees are now receiving. They suggested they would meet with Leedswatch to discuss options.

·  In relation to the Rawdon Community Library Main Door and Frontage application, Cllr Edwards declared a non-pecuniary interest as he volunteers at the library. Members asked for clarification if Rawdon Parish Council were also providing funding for this project. It was noted that the Community Library had also been funding raising towards this project. The Committee were advised that the Community Library provide not only provide a library service but also provided a wide range of activities and hosted groups as well as being an open space for all and a warm space in winter.

·  It was clarified that the project suggested by Jungle Kids Ltd was open to all children.

RESOLVED – To:

a.  Review and note the minimum conditions for municipal year 2024/25 (paragraph 14)

b. Note details of the Wellbeing Budget position (Table 1)

c. Funding proposals for consideration and approval (paragraphs 30-43) Outcomes on decisions noted below:

d. Note details of the projects approved via Delegated Decision (paragraph 20-21)

e. Note monitoring information of its funded projects (paragraph 22-23)

f. Note details of the Youth Activities Fund (YAF) position (Table 2)

g. Note details of the Small Grants and Skips Budget (Table 3)