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 2023/24.

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 2023/24.

The Locality Officer presented the report informing the Committee of the following points:

·  There was currently a remaining balance of £39,096.63. A full breakdown of the projects was listed in Table 1.

·  Members were asked to consider the projects listed in the submitted report at Paragraphs 21 to 27. At this point in the meeting Cllr Gruen declared an interest in the application for Bramley Basketball @ Leeds West Academy as she is on the Board of Governors for this academy.

·  Members were advised that since the last meeting on 4^th July the following projects had been approved via delegated decision:

o  Kirkstall Christmas Lights – Leeds Lights - £3,057.00

o  Community Events in Armey and Gotts Park Top up – Friends of Armley and Gott’s Park - £531.00

o  Litter Bins for Bramley – LCC Cleaner Neighbourhoods Team - £2,490.10

o  Armley Extravaganza – New Wortley Residents Association - £1,000.00

o  Bramley Christmas Tree – LCC Forestry - £1,330.00

o  LS12 Creative – Inner West - £1,978.40

·  It was noted that 1 project had been declined – as at Paragraph 29

·  Members were advised that monitoring information would be provided at the next meeting.

·  The Community Committee was advised there was a remaining balance of £27,379.87.12 in the Youth Activity Fund. A total of £48,944.88 had been allocated to projects, as listed in Table 2.

·  Table 3 in the submitted report showed the Small Grants allocations and Table 4 provided a list of the Skips provided by the Committee.

·  A capital budget of £12,739.03 is available to spend. Members were asked to note the capital allocation summarised in Table 5.

·  Table 6 provided information on Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), and it was noted there was currently a remaining balance of £98,350.

Members were advised of the following points in consideration of the projects listed at Paragraphs 21-27:

·  Cllr Gruen had negotiated a reduced amount for the Bramley Lantern Parade from £2,000 to £1,600.

·  The Inner West Youth Summit was the same price as last year and included food.

Members discussions included:

·  Cost of painting at the Bramley Falls Park Playground.

·  An email had been received in relation to Christmas Tree prices. It was noted that the email should be provided to the Locality Officer who would deal with this issue.

·  Cllrs McKenna and Parnham had visited LS12 Creative in Armley and had been impressed with the work of the group. He wished to put forward a project from this group for the Wythers estate.

·  Kirkstall Ward Members informed the Committee of a highways scheme for the Kirkstall area in relation to parking at Kepstorn Close. They asked for the approval to spend £25,000 from the CIL budget on the scheme and for this to be taken as a delegated decision. The Committee were advised that the Kirkstall Ward was in need of additional parking and there were a couple of schemes being considered, with this being the cheaper scheme. The Committee was of the view that the CIL budget should be used for the highways scheme at Kepstorn Close.

·  Whilst discussing CIL money it was noted that a highways scheme in Armley was put forward prior to Covid but had not gone ahead and the Armley Ward Members asked if this could be looked at again.

·  It was suggested that information in relation to CIL be provided to co-opted members.

·  Members requested a breakdown of where the CIL money had come from within the Inner West area.

RESOLVED –

a. To note details of the Wellbeing Budget position (Table 1)

b. Approval of the following: (paragraph 21)

c. To note details of the projects approved via Delegated Decision (paragraph 23)

d. To note the monitoring information of its funded projects (paragraph 27)

e. To note details of the Youth Activities Fund (YAF) position (Table 2)

f. To note details of the Small Grants & Skips Budget (Tables 3 & 4)

g. To note details of the Capital Budget (Table 5)

h. To note details of the Community Infrastructure Levy Budget (Table 6)