Agenda item
Local Improvement Scheme Decisions
An opportunity for you to tell us what you think before the final decisions on how to spend the 2009/10 budget is made at this meeting.
Minutes:
2008/09 Budget
- RP: Funding for street lighting. 3 schemes proposed, but expenses are high. Lighting will go up in Chaucer Street and Temple/Lang Avenue. Scheme on Thief Lane cancelled since the need wasn’t sufficient to warrant funding.
- Where on Thief Lane?
- Hull Road end.
- This is a bad area though.
- If there is enough interest then the issue could be looked into again.
- Grant to Sustrans ranger. Questionable whether or not this is value for money. Sum should be set aside for maintenance not Sustrans.
No Underspend
2009/10 Budget
o A need to reduce bids to budget. Also needed to remove schemes with a net opposition – more no votes than yes votes. Some general scheme adjustment was also necessary.
o HU-09-04: Fund to tag 50 cycles withdrawn in favour of better locks. Money can be set aside for the time being.
o HU-09-05: ‘Community ranger’ was put in in error. HU-09-05 actually refers to Sustrans it was labelled correctly on the ballot paper. No real need to go for it since PCSOs satisfy need, and their operational hours have been extended..
- Over £4000 seems excessive.
o Cycle track very useful. As long as it does what it is supposed to do (i.e. keeps area useable, no broken glass, etc.), then I don’t really mind who gets the money.
- Quality of maintenance has dropped significantly in last year. A man with a broom and bag not really sufficient.
- Can amount be reduced?
o Seems to be that feeling of the meeting is to look into alternative schemes. Will look for more qualified info and then take it from there.
o HU-09-12: Have improved disabled access to area, making it much more useable. Just £1500 of £26,000, also enables easier access for prams, etc.
o HU-09-09: Kids seem to enjoy schemes and they do a good job
- There seems to be an unequal proportion of money allocated for sports facilities and for anti-social youths.
o Active York only put in a bid for that amount. Also, £3500 for taking kids who would other wise be hang around on the streets, perhaps causing mischief, is actually quite good value for money.
- Could we alter the proportions allocated? Put it to vote?
o We will leave the schemes in. These are just provisional. We should not rule things out. The amount of funding can be amended in the future.
o Perhaps we could invite Playspace to do a presentation at the next committee meeting.
- Do children pay to use scheme?
- No, it is free. The funding is to meet the cost of workers. Kids are better off here than ‘on the street’ causing trouble.
- It seems that there is a general endorsement of schemes except for HU-09-05/09. We will try to get Playspace and Sustrans to talk at the next ward committee meeting
The following schemes were approved:
- 02- Fund to update street lighting in the ward
- 03 – Fund to put out and maintain 3 salt bins
- 11 - Funding to support the St Nicholas Fields Big Recycle Day & Apple Day in 2009
- 08 – Grant to Arts Action York to provide a program of musical entertainment of elderly residents of Woolough House
- 19 – Grant to older citizens advocacy York for elderly residents in the ward
- 16 – Grant to York Playspace to provide free mobile play sessions for 5-13 year olds in the school holidays
- 17 – Fund to contribute to the Hull Road park in 2009
- 12 – Grant to Friends of St. Nicholas’ Fields to continue a project to improve pathways at the site
- 18 - Grant to Active York to provide financial, coaching, academic and expert support to young athletes in the Hull Road ward
- 10 - Grant to Street Sport York to provide a series of free activity sessions at suitable locations across the ward
- 13 - Grant to York Rotters to encourage children to come together to learn and perform a mini musical about composting to promote learning on the subject
- 14 - Grant to York Credit Union Partnership to run advice sessions in the ward
- 07 - Funding towards installing fitness trails in the ward
- 21 Funding for a biological survey to ascertain the water quality in Tang Hall Beck, Hull Road Park
- 24a Install 2 picnic tables in Hull Road Park
- 24b Fund for new play equipment in Hull Road Park
- 23 Support for Hull Road Planning Panel expenses
Meeting ended. 8.50