Agenda and minutes

Councillor Palmer was elected Chair and welcomed everyone to the Eyres Monsell budget meeting.

The Chair explained that at the previous community meeting, it had been agreed to replace the usual meetings with ‘community walkabouts’ in the Ward.  However funding applications would need to be agreed and formally minuted and in order to do that, special meetings, such as this, purely to consider funding applications would also be held.

Apologies for absence were received from Ps Andy Partridge, Scott Clarke -City Warden, Joan Garrity and Jean Dutfield.

The first main item on the agenda is Declarations of Interest where Councillors have to say if there is anything on the agenda they have a personal interest in. For example if a meeting was due to discuss a budget application put forward by a community group and one of the Councillors was a member of that group, they would not be able to take part in the decision on that budget application.

Councillors are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or other interest they may have in the business on the agenda, and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

There were no declarations of interest.

The minutes of the previous Eyres Monsell Community Meeting, held on 20^th September 2012 and 17 October 2012 have been previously circulated and Members are asked to confirm them as a correct record.

RESOLVED:

that the minutes of the previous meetings held on 20 September 2012 and 17 October 2012 be confirmed as correct records.

Councillors are reminded that they will need to declare any interest they may have in budget applications, and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

To note any grants, which have been approved from the 2012/13 Eyres Monsell Ward Community Budget under the Council’s “fast track” procedure

The Chair explained that no applications had been approved under the fast track procedures. In the interest of transparency and fairness, the Ward Councillors wanted to move away from fast tracking any budget applications in the future. It was intended that all applications should be treated on the same basis.

Councillors are reminded that they will need to declare any interest they may have in budget applications, and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

To consider the following applications for grants from the 2012/13 Eyres Monsell Ward community Budget:-

a)    Drop Kerb Scheme - £5,000 – submitted by Ben Manners, Leicester City Council

b)    Free Running - £480 – submitted by Leicester City Council Youth Service

c)    Community Mosaic Project - £285 – submitted by Catch 22

The Chair explained that the following funding applications had been received and considered by the Ward Councillors.

Proposal: Drop Kerb Scheme

Submitted by: Eyres Monsell Housing Officer, Ben Manners

Amount requested: £5000

RESOLVED:

                        that the funding application be supported to the value of £5000.

Proposal: Free Running

Submitted by: Steve Joseph

Amount requested: £480

RESOLVED:

                        that the funding application be supported to the value of £480

Proposal: Community Mosaic Project at Her Ladyship Covert

Submitted by: Catch 22, Bina Patalia

Amount requested: £285

RESOLVED:

                        that the funding application be supported to the value of £285.

The meeting heard that after the above three applications had been supported, there was a balance of £6895 in the Eyres Monsell community meeting budget.

The Chair explained that the deadline for submission of the final budget applications for the financial year was 28 February 2013. A community meeting purely to consider any budget applications would be arranged approximately 10 days after that deadline.

The meeting closed at 2.08 pm