Issue - meetings
Air Quality Grant Update
Meeting: 16/11/2010 - Decision Session - Executive Member for Neighbourhoods and Housing. (Item 25)
25 Air Quality Grant Update 
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The purpose of this report is to update the Executive Member of the outcome of the recent Air Quality Support Grant (AQSG) applications made to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED: That Option A at paragraph 35 of the Officers report should be accepted and the Council should accept air quality grants from DEFRA totalling £77,090 and to request that York be considered for any further grant that may become available later in the year.
REASON: It represents the most appropriate way of funding the continuation of LAQM in the city and projects in relation to the Council’s Low Emission Strategy. LAQM is a statutory undertaking that contributes towards the corporate priorities on Thriving City, Sustainable City and Healthy City.
Minutes:
The Executive Member considered a report which provided an update on the outcome of the recent Air Quality Support Grant (AQSG) applications made to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Three AQSG bids were made in relation to the council’s ongoing Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) work. The report provided an overview of the planned expenditure of the AQSQ to be accepted from DEFRA and a general update on local air quality management in York.
Officers outlined the report and advised the Executive Member that York had been awarded the fifth highest allocation of grants in the country, despite the amounts awarded being well below the amounts bid for.
RESOLVED: That Option A at paragraph 35 of the Officers report should be accepted and the Council should accept air quality grants from DEFRA totalling £77,090 and to request that York be considered for any further grant that may become available later in the year.
REASON: It represents the most appropriate way of funding the continuation of LAQM in the city and projects in relation to the Council’s Low Emission Strategy. LAQM is a statutory undertaking that contributes towards the corporate priorities on Thriving City, Sustainable City and Healthy City.