Issue - meetings

The Joint Committee is asked to agree the process for the allocation of £3,000 of Community Safety Funding this year and to note how residents benefitted from the projects funded last year

The Joint Committee (Runnymede) agreed that

(i)    The Committee’s delegated community safety budget of £3,000 for 2019/20 be retained by the Community Partnership Team, on behalf of the Committee, and that the Community Safety Partnership and/or other local organisations be invited to submit proposals for funding that meet the criteria and principles set out at section 3 of this report.

(ii)  Authority be delegated to the Community Safety Manager, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the joint committee and divisional members as appropriate, to authorise the expenditure of the community safety budget in accordance with the criteria and principles stated in section 3 of this report.

(iii)The committee will receive updates on the project(s) that are funded, the outcomes and the impact it has achieved.

The Joint Committee (Runnymede) noted

(iv)The update on the projects funding by the committee’s funding in 2018/19 set out in section 2.

Reasons

(i)    The report sets out a process for allocating the committee’s delegated community

safety budget of £3,000 to local organisations.

(ii)   As part of the process, updates are given to the Committee on projects that have been supported.

The Partnership Committee Officer introduced this report by explaining how the proposed process would work and its benefits in ensuring transparency and accountability in how the funding is spent. She then updated the Committee on the two projects that had been supported as a result of the funding awarded in 2018/19; a campaign to educate residents on alcohol abuse and the purchase of mobile CCTV cameras to detect incidences of fly-tipping.

The County Council’s Community Safety Manager, elaborated further on the two projects. Impressed by the success of the mobile cameras since being deployed in the borough, councillors asked whether it would be possible for further cameras to be purchased from this year’s funds. The Community Safety Manager said that the Borough’s Community Safety Partnership could certainly consider this and put in another bid for additional cameras if they felt there was need for them.

The Joint Committee (Runnymede) agreed that

(i)    The Committee’s delegated community safety budget of £3,000 for 2019/20 be retained by the Community Partnership Team, on behalf of the Committee, and that the Community Safety Partnership and/or other local organisations be invited to submit proposals for funding that meet the criteria and principles set out at section 3 of this report.

(ii)  Authority be delegated to the Community Safety Manager, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the joint committee and divisional members as appropriate, to authorise the expenditure of the community safety budget in accordance with the criteria and principles stated in section 3 of this report.

(iii)The committee will receive updates on the project(s) that are funded, the outcomes and the impact it has achieved.

The Joint Committee (Runnymede) noted

(iv)The update on the projects funding by the committee’s funding in 2018/19 set out in section 2.

Reasons

(i)    The report sets out a process for allocating the committee’s delegated community

safety budget of £3,000 to local organisations.

(ii)   As part of the process, updates are given to the Committee on projects that have been supported.