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Wallasey Constituency Committee Budget and Spend - Final Report

Meeting: 12/03/2019 - Constituency Committee - Wallasey (Item 25)

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The Wallasey Constituency Committee Manager introduced a report of the Corporate Director of Strategy & Partnerships that provided Members with an update on the Constituency Committee’s completed projects and spend, concluding the Wallasey Constituency Committee’s operation.  The report provided details of the 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 spend.  The report also set out details of the Problem Solving Fund and informed the Committee that at Wallasey Constituency Committee on 28 September 2018 (minute 13 refers) spend from the Fund had been noted which had left a balance of £7,368.78.  The report identified spend that had been agreed from the Problem Solving Fund and there was now £4,600 remaining. The Constituency Manager informed members that they would be contacted by email at the beginning of April with an update as to any further spend from the Problem Solving Fund up until the end of March 2019.  Appendix 1 to the report set out the status of Integrated Transport Block Capital Fund and Transport Plan for Growth Schemes. Members would also be updated on the issue of tacking food poverty as the procurement process was now being undertaken and the bids received would soon be scored.  A member questioned the underspend relating to improvements to road safety and maintenance and asked if the Constituency Committee could utilise the underspend identified.  The Constituency Manager informed members that this could not be done before the end of this financial year however the core budget underspend could be added to the Problem Solving Fund.

 

Members then discussed proposals for areas requiring spend including more bins for the Harrison Drive area of New Brighton, more wheeled bins on the promenade to be located at access points and anchorage points for bins to address the potential of the occurrence of a serious accident; more open bins to be replaced by lidded bins and dropped kerbs throughout the Borough and in particular in the Moreton area.  Councillor Anita Leech, Cabinet Member for Environment suggested that requests for bins be sent to her and then be collated and she reported that there would be a bin audit in the new financial year.  The Constituency Manager reported that spend from the Problem Solving Fund would be agreed on a first come first served basis until the money was used up.

 

Resolved – That;

 

1  the report be noted.

2  the outstanding sum for the core budget underspend be moved to the Problem Solving Fund.