To confirm the Minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 2 February 2017 as a correct record.  (Attached)

The Assistant Director for Law and Governance submitted the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 2 February 2017.

Councillor C Muspratt requested that the minutes be amended to include a resolution that had been made at the previous meeting that the Committee make arrangements for a delegation be sent to speak to Government Ministers re: funding.

Kevin Sutton – Community Representative requested that the following amendments be made to the minutes:

Minute 35 – Recommendation Two

Mr K Sutton, Community Representative raised concerns regarding the Social Isolation Contract and in particular 3 points:

1)  Why were members of the committee not informed that the provider of the contract had changed with effect from 1^st October, 2016 and what were the reasons for the change of provider.

2)  It had been brought to K Suttons attention earlier in the day that the GIFT were operating a small grant scheme of up to £200 for organisations in Wirral South as part of the contract and the first round had closed in mid January. No Members od the committee knew anything of the existence of this scheme.

3)  The facts and figures in the Constituency Managers report on the progress and performance of the GIFT provider to date were now in a different format from previous reports and were misleading.

David Armstrong informed the meeting that the organisation in question had approached the Council to inform officers that they could no longer continue as an organisation and have since gone into liquidation and as a result a new provider was sought. He informed the meeting that it was not the intention of council officers to be misleading in the way it presented progress or information of the contract.

As no other members were aware of the above information or concerns which were mirrored by Councillor J Walsh he requested that the Constituency Manager prepare a full report on the Social Isolation contract to include details on the issues raised by the Community Representative and circulate the report to all members of the committee within 3 weeks.

The motion was recommended and approved.

Minute 35

The following to be included:

Question 8

Mr K Sutton raised the following query

With regard to the proposal to introduce car parking charges in Eastham Country Park Mr Sutton informed the Committee that Eastham Community Forum and local businesses and residents were against the introduction of any car parking charges in Eastham Country Park. The impact of this displacement of traffic onto other roads and Levers car park had not been assessed by the Council as well as the impact on local traders and home owners adjacent to the Country Park. Many local residents use the Park on a daily basis for leisure and recreational activities and need to use their cars to access these facilities as it is not easily accessible by foot.

Councillor D Mitchell reported that he had raised the same concerns already with council officers.

Resolved – That subject to the above amendments the minutes be approved.