Issue - meetings

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Blamire)

Report of the Community Safety Partnership/LDLSP Safety Theme Group

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Thomas)

The Community Safety Partnership and Lancaster District Local Strategic Partnership (LDLSP) Safety Theme Group submitted a joint report asking Cabinet to consider consider whether Lancaster City Council should continue to act as Accountable Body for the Community Safety Partnership for the length of the Community Safety Plan (CSP).

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment and officer preferred option, were set out in the report as follows:

Option 1 - Agree to act as accountable body for the CSP and update the 2009/10 and 2010/11 budget accordingly.

Option 2 – Do not agree to act as accountable body and don’t update the 2009/10 and 2010/11 budget.

Option 1 is the preferred option. This Spending Plan has been agreed by the Community Safety Partnership statutory agencies.

It was moved by Councillor Thomas and seconded by Councillor Blamire:-

“(1)      That Lancaster City Council continues to act as accountable body for the Community Safety Partnership for the length of the CSP and that the 2009/10 and 2010/11 Revenue budget be updated accordingly to reflect the spending plans.  In agreeing to remain as the Accountable Body, it is noted that the Programme Team currently in Economic Development will have an increased monitoring role to play in the delivery of the actions of the CSP.”

Members then voted:-

Resolved unanimously:

(1)               That Lancaster City Council continues to act as accountable body for the Community Safety Partnership for the length of the CSP and that the 2009/10 and 2010/11 Revenue budget be updated accordingly to reflect the spending plans.  In agreeing to remain as the Accountable Body, it is noted that the Programme Team currently in Economic Development will have an increased monitoring role to play in the delivery of the actions of the CSP.

Officers responsible for effecting the decision:

Corporate Director (Finance and Performance)

Head of Financial Services

Reasons for making the decision:

The decision allows the City Council to continue acting as accountable body for the Community Safety Partnership for the length of the CSP.