Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/WS/19/007

Portfolio Holder: Cllr Robert Everitt           Lead Officer: Davina Howes

RESOLVED:

That:-

1.           A Cabinet Taskforce be established to carry out a review of West Suffolk Council’s Grants to External Organisations.

2.           The Terms of Reference for the Taskforce be approved, as set out in Report No: CAB/WS/19/007.

(Report No: CAB/WS/19/007)

The Cabinet received this report which proposed the establishment of a Group to carry out a review of West Suffolk Council’s Grants to External Organisations.

The aim of the review was to ensure that locality budgets, grants and reliefs made from 1 April 2020 were aligned to the Council’s strategic objectives and offer value for money.

The proposed review would only cover grant and relief schemes which were entirely discretionary or funded by West Suffolk Council and where the Council was not under a duty to have a scheme or operate the scheme in a certain way.  Therefore, the review would cover the following existing schemes:

-      Families and Communities grants

-      Leisure and Culture grants

-      Economic development grants

-      Environment/sustainability grants

In order for the Council’s approach to locality budgets, grants and reliefs to be shaped, the Cabinet would be informed of initial findings and feedback in September 2019.  Final recommendations would be made to Cabinet in November 2019 in order to ensure that stakeholder and Member feedback could be fully taking into account.

The proposed Terms of Reference for the Group were attached as Appendix 1 to the report.

RESOLVED:

That:-

1.           A Cabinet Taskforce be established to carry out a review of West Suffolk Council’s Grants to External Organisations.

2.           The Terms of Reference for the Taskforce be approved, as set out in Report No: CAB/WS/19/007.