Issue - meetings

[To approve supplementary budgets and delegate authority for the Wolverhampton Safer Streets Fund]

1.      That the City of Wolverhampton Council can act as Accountably Body for the Safer Streets Grant.

2.      That the establishment of supplementary revenue budgets totalling £187,602 and capital budgets totalling £60,000 fully funded by the £247,602 Safer Streets grant allocation be approved.

3.      That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, in consultation with the Director of Public Health, to utilise the £247,602 Safer Streets Fund from the Home Office for 2021-2022 and to approve the award of grants for activity outlined within the report.

Councillor Jasbir Jaspal presented the report seeking approval to the creation of supplementary budgets and delegated authority to spend against the Safer Streets grant funding awarded to the Council from the Home Office.  The funding would be utilised to complement mainstream activity of the Council and Safer Wolverhampton Partnership to address robbery, theft from person, vehicle crime and burglary in targeted lower super output areas, incorporating the West Midlands Police Bilston Impact Area. 

Cabinet members expressed their support for the proposal, that would contribute towards making the targeted neighbourhood safer.  They also extended thanks to the city’s Police Community Support Officers for their commitment to keeping the people of Wolverhampton safe.

Laura Phillips, Deputy Director of People and Change informed Cabinet that Councillors Beverley Momenabadi and Bhupinder Gakhal had submitted written declarations of interests in respect to this agenda item and were free to take part in the discussion.

Resolved:

1.    That the City of Wolverhampton Council can act as Accountably Body for the Safer Streets Grant.

2.    That the establishment of supplementary revenue budgets totalling £187,602 and capital budgets totalling £60,000 fully funded by the £247,602 Safer Streets grant allocation be approved.

3.    That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, in consultation with the Director of Public Health, to utilise the £247,602 Safer Streets Fund from the Home Office for 2021-2022 and to approve the award of grants for activity outlined within the report.