Agenda and draft minutes

To receive apologies for absence.

Apologies were received from Councillors Gill Morgan and Julia Reynolds.

To adopt and sign as a correct record the minutes of the committee meeting held on 3 February 2014 (previously circulated). 

The minutes of the meeting held on 4 February 2014 were agreed as a correct record of the meeting and the chair signed them.

To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.  

There were no declarations from councillors.

To receive notification of any matters, which the chairman determines, should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances, which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chairman.

None notified.

Any statements, petitions and questions from the public under standing order 32 will be made or presented at the meeting.

To receive the head of corporate strategy’s report.

Capital Community Grants.

The committee considered the head of corporate strategy’s report. This set out details of eight applications, the council had received, for capital community grants, requesting a total of £21,831. The report also set out the financial position, there being £32,495 remaining in the current year’s budget, which included £2,591 of unallocated funds underspend carried forward from the previous financial year.

The committee considered each application, assessing it against the grants criteria and awarded grants as follows: