Agenda item

Wendy Mead, Karina Dostalova and Edward Lord left the room for the consideration of this item.

The Committee discussed the application, but agreed further clarification was required regarding the basis upon which the City Bridge Trust can fund Corporation activity. Members noted that the projects described in the report were non-statutory, and any funding given by the Committee should not be relieving the Corporation of the cost of work that they were doing already, but should be funding new work. Members queried whether there was a clear enough framework for assessment and prioritisation of strategic grants, particularly when considering grant applications from City departments, and agreed to discuss this and the issue of substituting funding of previous non-statutory funding at their upcoming away-day.

AGREED – That the application be deferred until:

(a)  further information could be provided on the history of grants given by the City Bridge Trust to all Corporation projects in the past;

(b)  further information could be provided on the history of what the City Bridge Trust has given to the Open Spaces Department;

(c)  further information could be provided on why the income had gone up from 2013/14 and 2014/15; and

(d)  and more clarity on the suggested ‘tapering’ of the grant.