At the Cabinet meeting held on 12th June 2008 a report was considered on the de-centralisation of Integrated Transport funding to Area Forums. Cabinet subsequently agreed to continue the allocation of funding to the two Forums concerned for the current year 2008/9 and the Director of Technical Services presented a report which set out the revised Capital Programme for approval.

Cabinet had also requested formal feedback from the two Forums on the success of this initiative and this was also included in the report.

The Cabinet Member for Streetscene and Transport Services welcomed the positive feedback received from the Area Forums.

Resolved:  That

(1)  the Community Safety Projects programme as outlined in section 3.0 be approved;

(2)  the Walking Strategy programme as outlined in section 4.0 be approved;

(3) the Director of Technical Services be authorised to select suitable alternatives from the reserve list of schemes, in consultation with Party Spokespersons, in the event that it proves impractical to proceed with an approved scheme or unallocated finance becomes available;

(4)  the positive consultation feedback from the two pilot Forums and strong support for the continued de-centralisation of funding in future years be noted; and

(5)  Officers be requested to consult the remaining nine Forums in the next cycle of meetings to determine if they wish to receive de-centralised funding for 2009/10 based on the success of this pilot initiative.