Issue - meetings

The Board received a report setting out proposals for the creation of an Innovations Pot, from which ABG funding could be bid for by Partners for projects that supported the activities and interventions aimed at achieving key partnership priorities: the Greenest Borough Strategy and Local Area Agreement outcomes.

It was noted that applications would need to demonstrate clearly how they would support these key priorities and reflect the Partnerships approach to the environmental and place shaping agenda.

The Board was advised that applications receiving funding would commence in June 2009 and that the performance of the projects commissioned would be monitored on a quarterly basis.

In response to a suggestion that an projects should be agreed under the seven priorities included within the GBS, the Chair noted that the Innovations Pot had been proposed in order to stimulate new and creative projects.  There was agreement that an additional criterion should be added to those listed in the report requiring projects to demonstrate how they would ‘lead by example’.

The Board was advised that partners would be expected to take responsibility for driving projects forward between the quarterly Committee meetings. Therefore the impetus was on the responsible partner to determine how this would work in practice. 

It was noted that the Police had recently formed a cycle based team to target fly tipping in the Borough. It was suggested that partners may wish to form joint bids for funding to enhance new and existing projects.

RESOLVED:

1. That an Innovations Pot should be established, for partners to bid from, which would provide funding for projects that reflected the Better Places Board’s key priorities and targets.

2. That a report should be received at the Board’s next meeting setting out the process for bidding for funding from the Innovations Pot.