Issue - meetings

The Cabinet is requested to consider the report and make the following resolutions:

1.    That funding of £43,695 be approved from the COVID Contain Outbreak Management Fund (COMF), for an extension of the existing Ambassador Service to support the Council’s Covid 19 business recovery in Chichester District until 21 June 2021. 

2.    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Leadership Team following consultation with the Leader and relevant Cabinet Member to allocate COMF funding to appropriate projects in accordance with the grant conditions.

RESOLVED

1.    That funding of £43,695 be approved from the COVID Contain Outbreak Management Fund (COMF), for an extension of the existing Ambassador Service to support the Council’s Covid 19 business recovery in Chichester District until 21 June 2021.

2.    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Leadership Team following consultation with the Leader and relevant Cabinet Member to allocate COMF funding to appropriate projects in accordance with the grant conditions.

Cllr Plant introduced the item.

Cllr Sutton and Cllr Taylor commended the work of the Covid-19 Ambassadors

Mr Ward provided an update that the £411,000 funding allocation is likely to increase slightly subject to a formal decision making process at West Sussex County Council. The council will be given choice over how to spend the funding however the projects must relate to provision of a health related outcome.

In a vote the following resolutions were made:

RESOLVED

1.    That funding of £43,695 be approved from the COVID Contain Outbreak Management Fund (COMF), for an extension of the existing Ambassador Service to support the Council’s Covid 19 business recovery in Chichester District until 21 June 2021.

2.    That authority be delegated to the Strategic Leadership Team following consultation with the Leader and relevant Cabinet Member to allocate COMF funding to appropriate projects in accordance with the grant conditions.