Issue - decisions

Community Asset Transfer - Status Report

04/10/2010 - Community Asset Transfer - Status Report

A report by the Director of Law, HR and Asset Management advised Members of the current status of the Community Asset Transfer programme and sought authority to make budgetary adjustments for those centres which did not wish to pursue transfer.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)  properties with groups which had expressed an interest in proceeding with Community Asset Transfer remain within the transfer process;

 

(2)  those properties with groups unwilling or unable to proceed, or without existing groups, be removed from the transfer process;

 

(3)  such groups which were unwilling or unable to proceed at present be reminded;

 

(i)   that financial support to transfer assets from the Council to the Community beyond 31 March 2012 could not be guaranteed and that access to the £4.5m Community Fund would not be available after that date,

 

(ii)  decisions on the future of facilities that did not transfer by 31 March 2012 would be deferred until the Governance Commission had reported its findings and the extent of future delegation has been determined; and

 

(4)  the Director of Finance be authorised to make the necessary budgetary adjustments as identified in 5.2 totalling £47,400 funds to be reinstated from balances in 2010/11 and a permanent increase in budget for 2011/12.