CLAREMONT / WEASTE BUDGET SUB-COMMITTEE
23rd March 2009
4:30pm
The Meadows Resource Centre
Present:
Cllr J. Heywood, J. Openshaw; J. Collins; L. Crowder; J. Gandy
Officers:
M. Walbank; L. Bates and K. Fairhurst
Apologies:
B. Downes, B. Patten
1. MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting held on 24th January 2009 were accepted as a correct
record.
2. MATTERS ARISING
a). Financial Position
Devolved Budget – Remaining uncommitted devolved budget funding available
at March 2009 was £9070.
Community Health & Well-being fund is completely spent.
There is £3589 SPAA funding left to be spent.
b). Road Safety Training Fund
Community Committee requested that work at St Johns Primary be done as a
priority in light of the longstanding problems with traffic and parking around the
school. Sarah Brabban from UV and Mick will be meeting with the school to
discuss the matter further after the Easter break.
c) Salford Heart Care Drop-in –Community Committee approved £2399 in
principle at their February meeting to enable the group to set up a drop-in. St
James’ Church hall has now been identified as a venue and SHC require £2350
contribution from Community Committee. This payment will now be processed.
3. NEW APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING
Members considered the applications for funding and agreed the following
recommendations:
APPLICANT
AMOUNT APPLIED FOR /
PURPOSE
RECOMMENDATION
1. Monton Amateurs FC
£ 157 repair and upgrade of
emergency lighting
(pro-rata share of £2685)
£100 for towards accommodation
costs
£650 for poms
(Pro-rata share of £1000)
Pay £157 from Devolved budget
2. Friends of St James School
3. Flames Community Club
Pay £100 (from SPAA if possible)
Pay £650 from SPAA
4. Chandos Bowling club
5. Community Services
6. Rainbow Haven
7. BASIC
8. Langworthy Community
Church
9. Salford Forum of Older
People
10. Salford Explorer Scout Unit
11. Child Action Northwest
£732 for maintenance of equipment Pay £732 from SPAA if possible
(see note 1)
Defer indefinitely as neither current
£3000 plus £962 pa for ICT
chair nor vice chair want new
equipment and upgrades
equipment.
Pay £100 from Devolved budget
£100 for Laptops
(Pro-rata share of £1000)
Pay 481 from Devolved budget
£481 for running costs
(pro-rata share of £4471
Defer then pay £1290 for room hire
£2814 for Kidz club/room
hire/games/trips (club not yet set up0 and admin from Devolved budget
subject to clarification of aims of
group and clarification of where
attenders will be recruited from.
Pay £2000 from Devolved budget
£2982 for forum events in C/W
(see note 3)
£600 for outdoor activity equipment Pay 600 from SPAA
(see note 4)
(Pro-rata share of £928)
£2000 for Cyclone Mountain Bike
taster days
Pay £1000 from SPAA
Note 1 – Advise the club that the Community Committee could not guarantee to
fund a year on year application for maintenance costs.
Note 2 – Group’s primary aim is to “advance the Christian faith..”. Committee can
not fund promotion of religious or political views.
Note 3 – Budget group would like to recommend;
 Not having the money spent on a calendar as requested in application.
 The Community Tea events have been financially covered by Salix so not
applicable in application
 Not to have a grandparents day in programme of events for C/W
Note 4 - Group to be advised that two people from the same address should be
discouraged from being signatories for the group’s cheque book.
Budget Group noted that all the recommendations except the deferred ones would
be passed to elected members for their approval, as agreed at the last Community
Committee meeting.
4. CONTRACTS / SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS
To date only SCL have sent in their application to re-new the contract. Mick has
sent the remaining four applications out. Mick suggested to the group when
applications are received, a quarter of the funding agreed in the contract / SLA
should be released where appropriate. If there is a request for an inflation increase,
Mick will bring it back to budget group to make a recommendation.
Resolved: to accept the suggestion.
5. MONITORING FORMS
Members noted that a monitoring forms had been submitted by;
 Friends of Buile Hill Park

Langworthy F.C

SCL February Holiday activities
A letter of thanks had been received from St James Church, Hope.
6. NEWSLETTERS
Mick asked the group if they would like to make a recommendation to Community
Committee to fund a quarterly, corporate-style newsletter as the other areas across
Salford currently do and as had been produced recently for Claremont / Weaste as
well. Carbon Creative who serves the other areas has given an estimated costing of
£550 per 1000. Agreed to
RECOMMEND: that Community Committee agree to fund quarterly
newsletters produced by Carbon Creative for the year 2009/2010 at a cost of
approximately £2200.
7. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
It was noted that Salix have kindly given £400 to cover costs for Community Tea
events for 2009.
8. NEXT MEETING
Monday 1st June 2009
4:30pm
Meadows Resource Centre.
(To avoid Bank holiday, the May meeting will be moved to 1st June)