Decision details

The Committee considered a report containing an assessment of a funding request from the Long and Winding Way using approved methodology which had been agreed by the Committee on 19 March 2015.

Decision

1.    The Committee agreed to  recommend to the Council, to grant funding to the LWW of £10,000 per annum for a three year period commencing April 2016; subject to -

a)    the completion of  a service level agreement with the LWW which requires  that the LWW should continue to develop its partnership working with the Argyll & the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust and its Long Distance Routes Forum,

b)    evidence of financial viability for each year being presented to and approved by the Council before the release of each annual payment  and;

c)    that LWW be advised that this is the final financial support from  the Council; to be funded from General Fund Balance.

2.    In addition members noted that if the LWW cannot find a sustainable way forward no financial  burden would fall upon the Council.

Councillor Gary Mulvaney, who had moved an amendment which failed to find a seconder, requested that his dissent be recorded from the foregoing decision.

(Reference:  Report by Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Committee dated March 2016, submitted)