The panel will finalise award recommendations for the consideration of the Cabinet member for grants.
Minutes:
RESOLVED: to
a) accept all the suggested conditions for grant awards set out in the officers’ reports.
b) reduce the award to Oxfordshire South and Vale Citizens Advice as the furniture and ICT elements could be applied for under the councillor grant scheme.
c) reduce the award to Henley Town Council for a replacement town hall audio system as some elements were replacements for which the need should have been forecast in their budgets.
d) make no award to the Earth Trust (Little Wittenham) as, in accordance with the grants policy, the panel:
· believes the applicant has sufficient unrestricted reserves/assets to fund the project themselves;
· has serious concerns about the financial viability or appropriateness of the project; and
· believes that the project doesn’t meet the criteria or help deliver the council’s strategic objectives.
e) recommend that the Cabinet member for community services makes the following capital grant award decisions:
1. to award Beckley and Area Community Benefit Society Ltd 49.94% of the total cost, capped to £101,000 towards toilets and access improvements, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
2. to award Sonning Common Parish Council 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £18,629 towards play area resurfacing, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
3. to award Wallingford Sports Trust 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £46,053 towards replacement of the tennis pavilion, upgrading the football floodlights and increasing the car parking on site, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
4. to award Rotherfield Peppard Parish Council 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £169,124 towards the extension and modernisation of the sports pavilion, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
5. to award Brightwell cum Sotwell Parish Council 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £23,979 towards play area refurbishment, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
6. to award Crowmarsh Parish Council - 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £99,790 towards play area improvements and expansion, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
7. to award Towersey Playing Fields Committee 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £17,392 towards play area refurbishment, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
8. to award The Eyot Centre (Henley) 50.00% of the total cost, capped to £52,984 towards waterfront improvements, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
9. to award The PCC of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ipsden 21.48% of the total cost, capped to £12,000 towards disabled wc and access improvements, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
10. to award Great Milton PCC 34.68% of the total cost, capped to £52,500 towards the conversion of a store room, improvement of electrics, insulation and other improvements, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
11. to award Henley Town Council 37.50% of the total cost, capped to £7,499 towards outdoor gym equipment, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
12. to award Chalgrove Parish Council 37.50% of the total cost, capped to £41,718 towards the refurbishment of the hall kitchen and toilet, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
13. to award Oxfordshire South and Vale Citizens Advice 37.50% of the revised total cost of £8,422, capped to £3,158 towards a panic alarm, phone system and fire door closers, as set out in its application.
14. to award Henley Town Council 25.00% of the total cost, capped to £15,491 towards a replacement town hall audio system, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
15. not to award a grant to the Earth Trust (Little Wittenham) towards a new driveway, car park and fitout of a new learning space, as set out in its application.
16. to award Chinnor Parish Council 34.81% of the total cost, capped to £32,478 towards tennis facility improvements, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.
17. to award Clifton Hampden and Burcot Sea Scout Group 37.49% of the total cost, capped to £2,336 towards boating and camping equipment, as set out in its application.
18. to award The Chiltern Centre for Disabled Children (Henley) 37.50% of the total cost, capped to £7,976 towards garden improvements, as set out in its application, subject to the conditions set out in the report.