Decisions

To provide Cabinet with a 6 monthly update in relation to the Cultural Strategy Action Plan and make recommendations on actions to continue to deliver the Cultural Strategy.

RESOLVED to RECOMMEND to Council that:

(1)  the Strategy Update and Annual report be welcomed

(2)  the significant progress made during 2018/19 be noted

(3)  the Trust’s stated priorities to 2022 be endorsed

(4)  the potential significant external funding opportunities opened by having an active, well-regarded, and successful Cultural Trust with a growing track record of delivery be noted.

RECOMMENDED to Council that it is approved that the Pre-Submission Gloucester City Plan for Publication under the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 as the version of the Gloucester City Plan proposed to be submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination.

RESOLVED that the community safety work of the Stronger Safer Gloucester Partnership be noted.    

RESOLVED that:

(1)  the City Council’s position with regard to permanent site opportunities for the Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople community be endorsed; and

(2)  it be noted that officers have made a formal request under the ‘Duty to Cooperate’ to Gloucestershire district planning authorities seeking assistance in identifying a deliverable site to provide for the needs of Gloucester’s Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople community.

(3)  the ongoing work within the County to review the need for transit sites and temporary tolerated stopping places be noted.

RESOLVED that both the Strategic Risk Register and the Risk Management Action Plan 2019/20 be noted and endorsed.

RESOLVED that it be noted that:

(1)  the forecast year end position is currently for a decrease to the Council’s General Fund balance of £131k against a budgeted decrease of £91k.

(2)  the details of specific budgetary issues identified by officers and the actions being taken to address those issues

(3)  the current level of Capital expenditure as shown in Appendix 2 of the report.

RESOLVED:

(1)  to note the potential significant external funding opportunities opened by having an active, well-regarded, and successful Cultural Trust with a growing track record of delivery

(2)  to commit to providing further core funding of £100,000 over 3 years from 2020/21 and authorise the Corporate Director to enter into grant and service level agreements with the Gloucester Culture Trust.

(3)  to strategically review the effectiveness of the 2019/20 City Council Festivals & Events programme with a view to identifying the potential to commit to allocating a proportion of the budget towards a Gloucester Festivals Innovation Fund

(4)  to authorise the Corporate Director, after consultation with the Cabinet Lead Members for Regeneration and Economy and Culture and Leisure and the Solicitor to the Council, to negotiate terms and conclude leases with the Gloucester Culture Trust and The Music Works in each case for a term of 20 years from completion and at a peppercorn rent, and upon such other terms and conditions as the Corporate Director considers appropriate.

The draft Rough Sleeping Action Plan to be consulted upon with partners and the public.