Issue - meetings

This report presents the outcome of the process to assess bids made to the LAA Delivery Fund, together with a list of the projects recommended for funding, and asks Members to support the recommendations of the Executive Delivery Board in funding the short listed projects.

RESOLVED: That the Without Walls recommendation be accepted and that:

a)     Funding be awarded to the organisations set out in Annex B, subject to scheme 39 - Taking action against graffiti (£49,035) being replaced by scheme 28 - Capable Guardian (£50,0000), in all totalling £611,697;

b)     The remaining funding be allocated to the first reserve scheme, no. 25 – Castlegate Meeting Need (£46,984), should appeals not be forthcoming.

REASON:      To ensure that a wide range of projects are instigated to support delivery of outcomes for York’s Local Area Agreement (2008/09 – 2010/11).

Members considered a report which presented the outcome of the assessment of bids made to the LAA Delivery Fund, together with a list of the projects recommended for funding.

Following the launch of the Fund in September 2008, a total of 88 bids had been submitted by the closing date of 30 January 2009.  Of these, five had been registered as ineligible and one had been withdrawn.  The remaining 82 bids, after an initial assessment by Officers, had been and ranked in order of preference by members of the LAA Assessment Panel.  On 9 March, the Panel had met to consider the overall scores and agree a prioritised list of bids.  The scores awarded to each bid were attached as Annex A to the report, the Panel’s final recommendations were set out in Annex B and a summary of project deliverables for each recommended scheme was provided in Annex C.

The Without Walls Executive Delivery Board had met on 1 April to discuss the Panel’s views and had concluded that the list of recommended schemes represented a broad spread of projects, which would tackle many issues classed as ‘high risk’ by the delivery partnerships.  However, they had agreed that scheme no. 39, Taking action against graffiti, was an issue for the Council to pursue and should therefore be removed from the short list and replaced by scheme no. 28, Capable Guardian.  As a condition of funding, Capable Guardian should be asked to extend geographic coverage of their scheme.  Members were asked to support the Board’s recommendations.

Having noted the comments of the Shadow Executive on this item, it was

RESOLVED: That the Without Walls recommendation be accepted and that:

a)     Funding be awarded to the organisations set out in Annex B, subject to scheme 39 - Taking action against graffiti (£49,035) being replaced by scheme 28 - Capable Guardian (£50,0000), in all totalling £611,697;¹

b)     The remaining funding be allocated to the first reserve scheme, no. 25 – Castlegate Meeting Need (£46,984), should appeals not be forthcoming. ¹

REASON:      To ensure that a wide range of projects are instigated to support delivery of outcomes for York’s Local Area Agreement (2008/09 – 2010/11).