2014-03-31 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                                 31 MARCH 2014


Changes to Policy

Changes have been made to Page 8 of the Community Grants Policy that was presented to the
Infrastructure and Services Committee under the section ‘Who cannot apply.”

Organisations with full liquor licences and/or organisations with supporters clubs with full liquor
licences has now been replaced with – “Organisations with a licenced supporters/associated club
who commercially trade seven days a week”.

Refinement of the definitions supporting the Community Grants Policy has also been undertaken
to remove anomalies.


Changes to Grants Framework & Criteria

After consideration of feedback received at the Infrastructure and Services Committee and
subsequent discussions with the Mayor, changes have been made to the framework & criteria for
Community Partnerships funding category including:

    The title Community Programs has been amended to Operational Expenses to better
     reflect the intent of this type of funding;
    Ineligible item “salaries & wages” removed with wording amended to provide more flexibility
     around operational costs for activities that cannot reasonably be undertaken by volunteers;
     and
    Projects funding – wording amended to include programs & initiatives and allow flexibility
     for items that Council may wish to fund for more than one-year.




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