Issue - meetings

Received a report from the Corporate Director of Adult and Community Services on proposals for supporting local voluntary and community sector organisations in 2009 / 2010 through grants and commissions.  Also noted details of an additional recommendation to the report in relation to the creation of a Black and Minority Ethnic Groups Forum.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve all of its Community Priorities, to:

(i)  The programme of voluntary sector grants and commissions set out in the report;

(ii)  That grants being paid to four organisations as set out in the report be extended by four months; and

(iii)  Delegate authority to the Corporate Director of Adult and Community Services, in consultation with the Lead Member for Safer Neighbourhoods and Communities, to re-tender and award the commission for the creation of a Black and Minority Ethnic Groups Forum as originally agreed in December 2007.