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City Executive Board decisions (Minutes)

(1)       Minutes of the meeting held on 19^th December 2012.

(2)       Minutes of the meeting held on 13^th February 2013.

Single Executive Member decisions (Minutes)

(1)       Minutes of the Single Member Decision Meeting (Board Member, Finance and Efficiency) held on 25^th January 2013.

Council had before it minutes (previously circulated, now appended) of the City Executive Board and Single Executive Member meetings held since the last meeting of Full Council.

(a)       City Executive Board Decisions – 19^th December 2012 (Minutes)

            No questions were raised and Council noted the minutes.

            City Executive Board Decisions – 13^th February 2013 (Minutes)

(1)               Minute 89 – Community Grant Allocations for 2013/2014.

Councillor Simmons was unhappy that the Cowley Road Carnival had not been included.  He asked what the current position was with the £50k social inclusion grant which had not been released and suggested that it should apply to the organisations who had not been successful in the grants process.

In response Councillor Curran said that some of the grant applications received had met the criteria for funding and some had not.  He added some of those that were unsuccessful would receive grants from the Youth Ambition fund.

Councillor Jones asked for confirmation that the application forms for the Social Inclusion funding were available.

In response Councillor Price said that the criteria had been established, but the forms were not yet available.  Regarding comments from Councillors concerning the Cowley Road Carnival he said that the organisers had been in discussion with Council Officers from the Events Team on a service level agreement and funding options.

(2)               Minute 90 – Housing Allocations Scheme – Consultation Draft – Councillor Hollick asked if the Council had to have such restrictive conditions on tenants concerning the bedroom tax.  In response Councillor Seamons said that the Council would not put people into accommodation they could not afford. 

Councillor Turner said that he was uncomfortable with the changes being forced upon the Council and was unhappy that the Government continued to press forward the changes and putting people into these difficult situations.

(3)               Minute 92 – Green Spaces Strategy – Consultation Outcome – Councillor Rundle asked if this was a strategy and if it was why it had not come to Council.  In response Jeremy Thomas, Head of Law and Governance informed Council that it did not form part of the policy framework and so did not require adoption by Council.  He added that there was an overarching Leisure Strategy which would be coming to Council for adoption and the Green Spaces Strategy sat under this Leisure Strategy.

Councillor Benjamin welcomed the list of consultees and suggested that maybe some should have been consulted on the Roger Dudman Way development.

Councillor Fooks said that it was important to look after the green spaces in the City, but she still had concerns over the countryside aspect of the strategy.

(4)               Minute 93 – City Deal – Councillor Williams said that previous experience had taught him that the Government comes in on initiatives such as this and starts to change things.  He stressed that the Council should keep control of the whole process.

In response Councillor Price said that the City Deal was a partnership and the Council did not have the locus to take control.  He added that he would continue to provide regular updates to Council.

(b)       Single Executive Member Decision (Board Member, Finance and Efficiency) (Minutes) – 25^th January 2013

No questions were taken as the time allowed for this item had been reached.