Issue - meetings

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its two appendices (the first of which is confidential* and is available to members and relevant officers only) and to make the following resolutions namely that it approves the recommendations (to be reported orally) of the Grants and Concessions Panel made on 22 September 2016 in relation to two applications received under the New Homes Bonus (Parish Allocations) Scheme which exceeds the £25,000 delegation limit for the Cabinet Member for Community Services.

*[Note Exempt category Para 3: Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)]

RESOLVED

That the recommendations of the Grants and Concessions Panel in relation to the respective applications made under the New Homes Bonus (Parish Allocations) Scheme by Donnington Parish Council and Lynchmere Parish Council, which exceeded the £25,00 delegation limit for the Cabinet Member for Community Services, be approved.

The Cabinet considered the agenda report and its two appendices, the first of which was exempt from the public domain and was (unlike the agenda and the second appendix) sent only to members and relevant officers) (copies (save for appendix 1) attached to the official minutes).

The report was presented by Mrs Lintill.

Mr Hyland was in attendance.

Mrs Lintill summarised the two recommendations made by the Grants and Concession Panel with respect to the New Homes Bonus (Parish Allocations) Scheme: an application by Donnington Parish Council for £28,145 for 2016 and a request for a variation to a previously agreed award to Lynchmere Parish Council for £30,000 in 2013.

Mr Hyland did not wish to add to Mrs Lintill’s introduction but in reply to a query she raised he advised that to date the total allocations from the £250,000 New Homes Bonus (Parish Allocation) budget for 2015-2016 amounted to £207,925.

There were no other questions and no comments by the Cabinet members.

Decision

The Cabinet voted unanimously by a show of hands to make the following resolution.

RESOLVED

That the recommendations of the Grants and Concessions Panel in relation to the respective applications made under the New Homes Bonus (Parish Allocations) Scheme by Donnington Parish Council and Lynchmere Parish Council, which exceeded the £25,000 delegation limit for the Cabinet Member for Community Services, be approved.