Issue - meetings

To receive and consider report 183/08 of the Head of Corporate Strategy   

(Time 2.47pm to 3.05pm)

The Executive received and considered report 183/08 of the Head of Corporate Strategy which set out the budget position for the Executive in respect of community grants and set out details of six grant applications received. 

Members agreed in principle to allocate grant funding to each applicant but, due to the level of funding available, were unable to support the applications in full.  Members considered that as this was the first of two meetings at which grants would be allocated in the 2009/10 financial year, approximately half of the budget should be allocated at this meeting.  The Executive then awarded grants to each applicant. 

The Executive was also asked to approve the carrying forward of any unspent grant budgets from the Area Committees in 2008/09 to 2009/10.  Further to the report it was noted that the West Area Committee had spent all of its 2008/09 allocation.  The Executive agreed to carry forward the unspent community grants budgets for the Abingdon Area Committee and the North East Area Committee. 

RESOLVED

(a)               that the Executive’s budget for 2009/10 for Vale-wide community grants of £21,714 be noted;

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(b)               that the following grant applications be approved (by six votes to nil):

(b)               that the requests from Area Committees to carry forward any unallocated grant budget from 2008/09 be agreed as follows:

Abingdon Area Committee                                     £1,764.72

North East Area Committee                                      £417.65