Notice of a public

Decision Session - Executive Member for Finance and Major Projects

Meeting to be held in consultation with the Executive Member for

Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods (for agenda item 4 Annual Report on Financial Inclusion and Welfare Benefits Activities (2021/22) 

 

To:

Councillor Ayre (Executive Member for Finance and Major Projects) and Craghill (Executive Member for

Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods)

 

Date:

Monday, 17 October 2022

 

Time:

10.00 am

 

Venue:

The Thornton Room - Ground Floor, West Offices (G039)

 

 

 

AGENDA

 

 

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Notice to Members – Post Decision Calling In:

 

Members are reminded that, should they wish to call in any item* on this agenda, notice must be given to Democratic Services by 4:00 pm on Wednesday 19 October.

 

*With the exception of matters that have been the subject of a previous call in, require Full Council approval or are urgent which are not subject to the call-in provisions. Any items that are called in will be considered by the Customer and Corporate Services Scrutiny Management Committee.

 

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Written representations in respect of items on this agenda should be submitted to Democratic Services by 5:00pm on Thursday 13 October.

 

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1.          Declarations of Interest 

 

 

At this point in the meeting, Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary interest or other registerable interest they might have in respect of business on this agenda, if they have not already done so in advance on the Register of Interests.

 

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2.          Minutes 

(Pages 1 - 2)

 

To approve and sign the minutes of the Decision Session held on 11 July 2022.

 

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3.          Public Participation 

 

 

At this point in the meeting members of the public who have registered to speak can do so. Members of the public may speak on agenda items or on matters within the remit of the committee.

 

Please note that our registration deadlines are set as 2 working days before the meeting, in order to facilitate the management of public participation at our meetings.  The deadline for registering at this meeting is 5:00pm on Thursday 13 October 2022

 

To register to speak please visit www.york.gov.uk/AttendCouncilMeetings to fill in an online registration form.  If you have any questions about the registration form or the meeting, please contact Democratic Services.  Contact details can be found at the foot of this agenda.

 

Webcasting of Public Meetings

 

Please note that, subject to available resources, this meeting will be webcast including any registered public speakers who have given their permission. The meeting can be viewed live and on demand at www.york.gov.uk/webcasts.

 

During coronavirus, we made some changes to how we ran council meetings, including facilitating remote participation by public speakers. See our updates (www.york.gov.uk/COVIDDemocracy) for more information on meetings and decisions

 

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4.          Annual Report on Financial Inclusion and Welfare Benefits Activities (2021/22) 

(Pages 3 - 42)

 

This report provides the Executive Member for Finance and Major Projects in consultation with the Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods with the Financial Inclusion/Welfare Benefits outturn report 2021/22 and an update on the first quarter of 2022/23 including:

·        The financial support available to residents dealing with the challenges of covid-19 during 21/22 and the cost of living impacts moving into 2022/23;

·        An update on benefits statistics and performance administered by the council including the York Financial Assistance Scheme;

·        Other financial inclusion (FI) activity during 2021/22 including delivery of Financial Inclusion grant schemes.

 

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5.          Submission of funding bids to Levelling Up Fund in accordance with delegations from Executive Committee at item 5, 16.6.22 

(Pages 43 - 52)

 

This report follows the Executive decision in June 2022 to submit 2 bids to the second round of the Levelling Up Fund (LUF). The report formally records the subsequent decision (of the Corporate Director of Place, in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and Major Projects, as delegated by the Executive), to submit the bids. The report also sets out the final bid compositions.

 

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6.          Application for Community Right to Bid under the Localism Act 2011 

(Pages 53 - 68)

 

This report details an application to list Blacksmiths Arms, Naburn, York as an Asset of Community Value (ACV), for consideration by the Council. The application has been received from Naburn Parish Council.

 

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7.          York Shared Prosperity Fund 

(Pages 69 - 102)

 

This report contains City of York Council’s Investment Plan, which was developed in partnership with local stakeholders and as agreed by the York UKSPF Partnership Board and the Executive Member, for the new UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). CYC will be responsible for delivering York’s UKSPF funds for the period 2022 to 2025. Further steps are now required to formally agree the Investment Plan and confirm arrangements for expenditure once Government has agreed the Investment Plan. This paper addresses those issues, together with an outline of expenditure in the current financial year.

 

 

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8.          Urgent Business 

 

 

Any other business which the Executive Member considers

urgent under the Local Government Act 1972.

 

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Democracy Officer:

 

Name: Angela Bielby 

Telephone: (01904) 552599

Email: a.bielby@york.gov.uk

 

For more information about any of the following, please contact the Democracy Officer responsible for servicing this meeting:

 

·        Registering to speak

·        Business of the meeting

·        Any special arrangements

·        Copies of reports and

·        For receiving reports in other formats

 

Contact details are set out above.

 

 

 

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