Issue - meetings
Acomb Front Street
Meeting: 12/04/2016 - Decision Session - Executive Member for Economy and Strategic Planning (Item 15)
15 Acomb Front Street 
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This report asks the Executive Member (Deputy Leader) to consider a request to transfer the Acomb Front Street budget to Acomb Alive.
Decision:
Resolved: That the Executive Member agreed to:
(i) Transfer the remaining Acomb Front Street budget to Acomb Alive
Reason: To empower the business community in Acomb to improve the area.
(ii) Appropriate governance arrangements being adopted by Acomb Alive to include the Council receiving regular updates on how the money has been spent and the outcomes achieved.
Reason: To ensure that Acomb Alive will be aqequately placed to manage the budget on the specific purposes outlined in the original paper to Executive in October 2013.
Minutes:
The Executive Member considered a report which requested the transfer of the fund to improve the economy of Acomb Front Street to the Acomb Alive group.
Officers gave a brief update to advise of an amendment to paragraph 4 of the report to state that it would be the Director for City and Environmental Services who should receive details of Acomb Alive as an accountable body.
The Executive Member sought clarification on what the funds to date had been spent on. Officers confirmed that the largest spend had been £8.5k on benches. Christmas trees and lights and planters had also been purchased. There was also a desire for the creation of a website to p[promote the area. It was also confirmed that the fund was a one off investment rather than an ongoing one.
Resolved: That the Executive Member agreed to:
(i) Transfer the remaining Acomb Front Street budget to Acomb Alive
Reason: To empower the business community in Acomb to improve the area.
(ii) Appropriate governance arrangements being adopted by Acomb Alive to include the Council receiving regular updates on how the money has been spent and the outcomes achieved.
Reason: To ensure that Acomb Alive will be aqequately placed to manage the budget on the specific purposes outlined in the original paper to Executive in October 2013.