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Resolution number OP/2014/183
MOVED
by Chairperson E Collins, seconded by Member LT Fuli:
That the
Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board:
a)
endorse the Community Grants Policy as
a regional framework for the Auckland Council community grants programme,
noting that the local board will be supported to develop an individual
schedule to the policy that sets out the specific outcomes, priorities and
structure of their local grants programme.
b)
support the provisions for local boards
to decide their local grants programme for each financial year, in accordance
with the Community Grants Policy. This includes:
i.
drawing upon local board plans to
determine priority areas for community grants
ii.
deciding the total budget available for
community grants for the financial year
iii.
ring-fencing a portion of their budget
for specific purposes or recurring, multi-year grants
iv.
imposing additional accountability and
performance measures relating to recurring, multi-year grants
v. deciding the number of funding rounds per year
vi.
setting the mechanism for recipients to
report back on how their grant benefitted the community.
c)
recommends that local boards have the
discretion to set their own thresholds for local grants, rather than adopting
the proposed ‘up to $1,000 for Fast Response Local Grants’ and ‘over $1,000
for Local Grants thresholds’.
d)
supports the draft community grants
policy provisions for multi-board grants, to be utilised as appropriate
case-by-case at the discretion of local boards. The transitional phase as
outlined in the report is not required.
Regional
grants programme
e)
supports a regional grants programme
which is focused on providing multi-year strategic relationship grants with
key groups and organisations and which support the implementation of the
Auckland Plan and related strategic action plans.
f)
recommends that opportunities be sought
to maximise the use of regional grants where they can support, and add value,
to projects, activities and programmes provided locally or across multiple
local boards.
g)
requests as part of the Long-term Plan,
work be undertaken to redistribute annual contestable and recurring grant
budgets held by operational departments to local boards, given their key role
in community development.
h)
recommends that no community grants
budgets that are currently administered by local boards or joint funding
committees are reallocated for the purposes of implementing the regional
grants programme.
Other issues
i)
requests a draft work programme and
communications plan, to implement the new community grants policy in 2015/16.
j) requests
staff to develop an integrated and simple approach to administer the various grants
programmes for the benefit of applicants, and a more efficient and effective
way for departments to work together to provide local boards with support,
analysis, advice and monitoring of community grants.
CARRIED
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