Leisure, Arts And Communities Committee - 10/01/2005

At a MEETING of the COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 10th January, 2005.

 

Present:-

 

Lord Provost John R LETFORD

 

 

 

BAILIES

 

C D P FARQUHAR

John CORRIGAN

Bruce D MACKIE

Helen WRIGHT

Neil I C POWRIE

Ian BORTHWICK

 

COUNCILLORS

 

Jill SHIMI

Joe MORROW

Jim BARRIE

Kevin KEENAN

Helen DICK

Will DAWSON

George REGAN

Nigel DON

Elizabeth F FORDYCE

Julia M STURROCK

Bob DUNCAN

Roderick A J WALLACE

Fiona M GRANT

Richard BEATTIE

Charles A WEBSTER

Christopher HIND

Andrew DAWSON

Derek J SCOTT

 

Joe FITZPATRICK

 

 

Councillor HIND, Convener, in the Chair.

 

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 13th December, 2004 was held as read.

 

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

 

I DUNDEE COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AWARD PROGRAMME 2005-2008

 

There was submitted Report No 3-2005 by the Head of Communities seeking approval for the submission of a 2005-2008 funding bid to the Scottish Executive for a three year rolling programme under criteria outlined in the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme.

 

The Committee approved the following recommendations:-

 

(a) to note the 2003-2004 Annual Report of the Partnership including the Action Plan review;

 

(b) to approve the 2005-2010 Community Safety Strategy as detailed in Appendix 1 of the report;

 

(c) to authorise the submission of a three year Funding Bid to the Scottish Executive by 31st January, 2005 under the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme for 2005-2008;

 

(d) to note the link of the Community Safety Partnership to the work of Dundee in Partnership - the Community Plan in Dundee 2005-2010.

 

II DUNDEE COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP - DUNDEE COMMUNITY SAFETY AWARD GRANT V(COMMISSIONED SERVICES)

 

There was submitted Report No 4-2005 by the Head of Communities making a recommendation for a commissioned grant award from the Community Safety Award 2004/2005. The grant award would be met from external funding from the Scottish Executive under the Community Safety Award Programme 2004/2005.

 

The Committee approved the recommended grant award of 20,000 for the Domestic Target Hardening Initiative - Non-Regeneration Areas.

III SOCIAL INCLUSION PARTNERSHIP ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES - DRUGS MISUSE FUNDING 2004/2005

 

There was submitted Report No 9-2005 by the Head of Communities making recommendations for the allocation of Drugs Misuse funding for the financial year 2004/2005.

 

The Committee noted the allocations from SIP2 Drugs Misuse funding allocation outlined in Appendix 1 of the report.

 

IV SOCIAL INCLUSION PARTNERSHIP ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES - EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES2004/2005

 

There was submitted Report No 10-2005 by the Head of Communities making recommendations for the allocation of Empowering Communities funding for the financial year 2004/2005.

 

The Committee noted the allocations from SIP1 and SIP Empowering Communities allocation as outlined in Appendices 1 and 2 of the report.

 

V SOCIAL INCLUSION PARTNERSHIP ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES 2004/2005

 

There was submitted Report No 11-2005 by the Head of Communities noting the allocation of funding for SIP1 and SIP2 from Communities Scotland and making recommendations for the allocation of SIP1 funding for the financial year 2004/2005.

 

The Committee noted the outcome of the SIP decision-making process and agreed to the proposals contained in Section 6 of the report including the transfer of SIP1 Small Grants funding to SIP1 Core Grant and the reallocation of slippage from the Small Grants budget 2004/2005.

 

 

 

 

CHRIS HIND, Convener.