Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk. This report was approved by the Police Committee on 1 December 2015 and will be considered by the Policy and Resources Committee on 10 December 2015.

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk which advised Members of a request for £50,000 funding from the Finance Committee City’s Cash Contingency for the first year of the Corporation’s contribution to the Police Arboretum Memorial Trust’s project to create a new national memorial to pay tribute to the UK’s Police Service and honour those Officers who have died in service.

The Town Clerk advised the Committee that the Policy and Resources Committee agreed to support a total contribution of £250,000 to the project over five years, with years two to five being funded through a base budget uplift of the Policy and Resources Committee budget.

RESOLVED – That the Committee agrees that funding for Year 1 of the Corporation’s contribution to the Police Arboretum Memorial Trust’s arboretum memorial project of £50,000 be met from the Finance Committee’s City’s Cash Contingency.