Decision details

Declarations of Interest:      None

Officers attending:  Camilla Edmiston, Community Safety Manager, WBC and Inspector Andrew Greaves, Surrey Police

Petitions, Public Questions, Statements:  None

The Community Safety Manger presented a report which gave an update on the activity and impact of the Safer Woking Partnership in the year 2018/19, and reported on community safety budget spend.

The Joint Committee (Woking):

(i)     Noted the contents of the report and progress made in 2018/19

(ii)    Noted the community safety budget spend during 2018/19 (Annex 1)

(iii)   Noted the 2019-22 Safer Woking Partnership Plan (Annex 2)

(iv)   Agreed that authority be delegated to the Community Safety Task Group to agree expenditure of the community safety budget in accordance with the criteria and principles stated in this report.

(v)    Noted that the Community Safety Task Group receives updates on the project(s) funded, on behalf of the committee and provides information on those projects in the quarterly community safety reports circulated to councillors.

Reasons for Recommendations:  The updated Safer Woking Partnership Plan is in place and publically available on the Woking Borough Council website. In order to ensure the timely publication of the next plan, authority to sign the document off on behalf of the committee is delegated to the Chief Executive (Woking Borough Council) in consultation with the Community Safety Task Group.