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.

This report 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 provided the following information to the Committee:

·  There is currently a remaining balance of £67,513.09 (including underspends not listed in Table 1). A full breakdown of the projects was listed in Table 1.

·  Since the last Community Committee on 17th June; Five projects have been considered and approved by Delegated Decision Notice and seven projects are currently being processed for approval. Members were advised that some projects had been received on the day of the meeting and would be sent to Members for consideration. It was noted that since the meeting on 11th March 2024, two projects had been declined.

·  The current remaining balance for the Youth Activity Fund is £29,162.56. A list of projects was set out in Table 2 along with the balances for each ward.

·  Members are asked to note the allocation of Small Grants and Skips listed by ward and summarised in Table 3. It was noted that Guiseley and Rawdon Ward and Horsforth Ward had received a top up to their allocation of £500 from the Wellbeing Budget.

·  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 listed by ward and summarised in Table 4.

·  The Community Infrastructure Levy has a remaining balance of £336,769.09 available to spend. This was detailed by ward in Table 5.

Members were provided with clarification in relation to the Subsidy Control Act 2022 in relation to the impact on Community Committees as set out at Paragraph 10 of the submitted report.

It was noted that there was an error on the report in relation to the dates for the Capital Budget. It was noted that it should have read November 2024 for all wards.

Members highlighted that decisions being taken under the process for delegated decision notices (DDN) were in some cases time sensitive to ensure that the funding was in place for organisations to proceed with the work. The DDN process was provided for the Members, and it was noted that in some cases separate meetings with the Ward Members would be required.

The Committee was due to consider the Arthington SID application. However, Members were provided with an update on a meeting with Highways in relation to a survey and assessment work which may lead to the installation of a CCTV speed camera for the area before moving this application forward. It was noted that once this work had been done, a meeting would be set up with the Adel and Wharfedale Members to discuss further.

RESOLVED - 

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

b. Details of the projects approved via Delegated Decision (paragraph 20-21) be noted.

c. Monitoring information of its funded projects (paragraph 22-23) be noted.

d. Details of the Youth Activities Fund (YAF) position (Table 2) be noted.

e. Details of the Small Grants and Skips Budget (Table 3) be noted.

f.  Details of applications for consideration (paragraph 30) to defer for further information.