Agenda item - Finance Report

Finance Report

Meeting of Inner West Community Committee, Wednesday, 27th November, 2019 6.00 pm (Item 44.)

To consider the report of the Head of Stronger Communities which 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 2019/20.

(Report attached)

Minutes:

The report of the Head of Stronger Communities 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 (CIL) Budget for 2019/20.

Members were informed of the following key points:

· Point 18 of the report set out at table 1 a list of projects funded with a remaining balance currently of £46,644;

· Points 20 to 28 listed projects for members consideration;

· Supplementary information presented 3 more projects for members consideration;

· Monitoring information had been provided for a cookery project which had been delivered from two sites one in Bramley and one in Armley;

· Table 2 of the submitted report set out the activities funded under Youth Activity Fund with £49,749 being allocated and a remaining balance of £3,651;

· Table 3 listed the small grants which have been funded by the Committee with table 4 listing the community skips which have been provided. The remaining balance currently stands at £1,935;

· The Inner West Community Committee has a capital of budget of £11,680.43 available to spend, table 5 of the submitted report showed the schemes which have been allocated capital money;

· The Inner West Community Committee currently have £114,605 available to spend in the CIL budget.

During this item Cllr. Illingworth declared an interest as he is Director of the Kirkstall Valley Development and is involved in decision making in relation to this project.

A member of the Drug Watch Foundation attended the meeting to provide information on the project ‘Drug: The Truth’.

Members’ discussions focused on CIL money and how this should be spent in the community.

RESOLVED – To:

a) Note details of the wellbeing budget position (Table1);

b) Consider/approve the following wellbeing proposals;

Project	Amount	Ward	Approved/declined/ deferred
Trinity Network Dewsbury Road Kitchen New Cookers Necessity	£1,150	Armley	APPROVED
Wellbeing Project- Armley Children’s Centre	£1,000	Armley	APPROVED
School Parking Signs	£4,000	All Inner West £1,333.33 per ward	Capital Budget APPROVED
Drugs: The Truth	£10,000	All Inner West £3,333.33 per ward	This was deferred by Armley Ward Refused by both Bramley and Kirkstall Wards. – Members were willing to promote the project within local schools
Fairfield Family Cookery Club	£7,381.71	Bramley& Stanningley	Deferred for further information
Changing Room Interiors Wortley Football Club	£3,250	Armley	Deferred for further information
CIL project - Upgrade to New Wortley Community Centre	£8,000	Armley	APPROVED
CIL project - Improvement to Recycling Point – LCC Waste Management	£2,990	Kirkstall	APPROVED
Abbey Mills Event	£3,000	All Inner West £1,000 per ward	Refused by Armley and Bramley Approved £1,000 - Kirkstall
Bramley Obesogenic-Food Environment Study	£2,000	Bramley & Stanningley	APPROVED
CIL project - Fairfield Estate Traffic Calming – LCC Highways	£49,000	Bramley & Stanningley	£38,000 - APPROVED
Scrap Art Project	£8,172	All Inner West £2,724 per ward	Bramley APPROVED £2,724 Kirkstall and Armley deferred until a new venue could be suggested

c) Note monitoring information of the Committees funded projects;

d) Note details of the Youth Activities Fund (Table 2);

e) Note details of the Small Grants Budget (Table 3);

f) Note details of the Community Skips Budget (Table 4);

g) Note details of the Capital Budget (Table 5);

h) Note details of the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget (point 38)

Cllrs McKenna, Smart and Heselwood left the meeting at the end of this item.

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