Agenda item

The report of the Head of Locality Partnerships 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 2022/23.

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 2022/23.

The Locality Officer presented the report and provided the following information:

·  There is currently a remaining balance of £37,269.30. A full breakdown of the projects is listed in Table 1

·  Members were requested to consider the following applications

·  Paragraph 24 of the report listed the projects which had been approved through Delegated Decision since the last meeting.

·  It was noted that no application had been declined.

·  Members were advised monitoring information would be provided for the next Community Committee Finance Report.

·  The Community Committee was asked to note that so far, a total of £27,148.50 has been allocated to projects, as listed in Table 2. The Community Committee is also asked to note that there is a remaining balance of £50,129.42 in the Youth Activity Fund.

·  Small Grants & Skips Budget of currently a remaining balance of £1,418.02. Approved projects are detailed in Table 3 & Table 4

·  The Inner West Community Committee has a capital budget of £3,851.08 available to spend. Members were asked to note the capital allocation summarised in Table 5.

·  The Community Committee is asked to note that there is £68,582.42 currently available to spend in the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) 2022/23 and projects funded were listed in Table 6.

Responding to questions from Members, the Community Committee were provided with the following information:

·  As far as officers are aware at this point any funding left unspent from the Youth Activities Fund could be carried forward to next financial year.

·  Officers had consulted with the Breeze Team in relation to the Saturday Night Project which had previously been held at Armley Leisure Centre. Unfortunately, they did not have the staff to run a project at this time. The Locality Officer suggested that they look at other organisations and projects and bring these back for Member’s consideration.

·  Councillors discussed the use of different skip companies for estate action days and the different experiences they had received. Members had suggested that one company should be agreed on by the Committee. Members were advised of a new process for the Small Grants and Skips Funds being presented to Cllr Harland. Officers said they would report back on the outcome of this.

·  Members queried the amount remaining in the Capital Budget and the CIL Budget. Officers to check and report back.

·  Members requested that information be provided to them in relation to spend by ward of Capital and CIL budgets for the past 5 years.

RESOLVED – To note:

a. Details of the Wellbeing Budget position (Table 1)

b. Wellbeing proposals for consideration and approval (paragraph 21 - 23)

c. Details of the projects approved via Delegated Decision (paragraph 24)

d. Monitoring information of its funded projects (paragraph 27)

e. Details of the Youth Activities Fund (YAF) position (Table 2)

f. Details of the Small Grants & Skips budget Budget (Tables 3 & 4)

g. Details of the Capital Budget (Table 5)

h. Details of the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget (Table 6)