Agenda, decisions and minutes

Received from Councillor Andy Hull.

None.

If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest* in an item of business:

         if it is not yet on the council’s register, you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent;

         you may choose to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest that is already in the register in the interests of openness and transparency. 

In both the above cases, you must leave the room without participating in discussion of the item.

If you have a personal interest in an item of business and you intend to speak or vote on the item you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent but you may participate in the discussion and vote on the item.

*(a)      Employment, etc - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

(b)        Sponsorship - Any payment or other financial benefit in respect of your expenses in carrying out duties as a member, or of your election; including from a trade union.

(c)        Contracts - Any current contract for goods, services or works, between you or your partner (or a body in which one of you has a beneficial interest) and the council.

(d)        Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the council’s area.

(e)        Licences- Any licence to occupy land in the council’s area for a month or longer.

(f)        Corporate tenancies - Any tenancy between the council and a body in which you or your partner have a beneficial interest.

 (g) Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body which has a place of business or land in the council’s area, if the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body or of any one class of its issued share capital. 

This applies to all members present at the meeting.

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The report was amended on submission as follows:

Delete “B2B Create” from the list of organisations in the Appendix.

That consideration of a grant award extension to the organisation B2B Create be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.

1. Subject to the deletion of “B2B Create” from the Appendix to the report, AGREED recommendation in the report of the Executive Member for Community Development

2. That consideration of a grant award extension to the organisation B2B Create be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.

Reasons for decision – as specified in the report

Other options considered – none

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted – none                 

Councillor Watts amended the report on submission as follows:

Delete “B2B Create” from the list of organisations in the Appendix.

That consideration of a grant award extension to the organisation B2B Create be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.

RESOLVED:

(a) That, subject to the deletion of “B2B Create” from the Appendix to the report, the current grant awards from the Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Fund and the Advice Fund, as detailed in the Appendix of the report of the Executive Member for Community Development, be approved for twelve months to 31 March 2016.

(b) That consideration of a grant award extension to the organisation B2B Create be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.

Reasons for decision

Extending grant awards from the Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Fund and the Advice Fund for twelve months will enable the Council to develop a resiliency strategy with the voluntary sector and consider how best to provide support for local organisations after 2016.

Other options considered

None.

Conflicts of interest/Any dispensations granted

None.