Agenda item

To consider a report by the Outer North East Area Leader which provides an update on the current position of the Outer North East Community Committee’s budgets and sets out details of applications seeking Wellbeing Revenue Funding or Youth Activity Funding.

(Report attached)

The East North East Area Leader submitted a report which provided an update on the current position of the Outer North East Community Committee’s budgets and set out details of applications seeking Wellbeing Revenue Funding and Youth Activity Funding.

Appended to the report were copies of the following documents for information / comment of the meeting:

·  An explanation on capital funding and eligible schemes (Appendix A referred)

·  Outer North East Community Committee Wellbeing Revenue Budget (Appendix B referred)

·  Outer North East Community Committee Youth Activity Funding  (Appendix C referred)

·  Outer North East Community Committee  - Community Committee priorities (Appendix D referred)

Andrew Birkbeck, Area Improvement Manager, presented the report and responded to Members comments and queries.

Members sought clarification on the capital monies they received from the Capital Receipts Incentive Scheme.

Referring to paragraph 4 of the submitted, the Area Improvement Manager said Capital Wellbeing was allocated through the council’s Capital Receipts Incentive Scheme (CRIS). 20% of receipts generated are retained locally up to a maximum of £100,000 per capital receipt. 15% was retained by the ward as additional Ward Based Initiative (WBI) funding and 5% was pooled across the Council and transferred to the Community Committees on the basis of need.

It was noted that of this pooled CRIS funding the Outer North East Community Committee received an allocation of 6.1%. Currently the Outer North East Community Committee had £31,400 in its Capital Wellbeing budget.

Further discussions ensued on the contents of the report together with the appendices which included:

·  Available funding for the current financial year.

·  Clarification around some of the projects seeking financial assistance.

RESOLVED –

(i)  That monies received via the Capital Receipts Incentive Scheme (CRIS) be allocated equally between the three Wards given it is generated via collective asset receipts.

(ii)  To note the current budget position for 2017/18.

(iii)  That the following project requesting Wellbeing Funding be determined as follows:

(iv)  That the following project requesting Youth Activity Funding be determined as follows:

(v)  To note that the following applications had been approved since the Community Committee on 12^th June 2017 under the delegated authority of the Director of Communities and Environment