Issue - meetings

Cabinet AGREED to award a grant of £52,060 to the Cambridge and District Citizens’ Advice Bureau for 2006/07.

Cabinet NOTED the grants awarded by the Community Development Portfolio Holder to the other CABs and the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre for their work in South Cambridgeshire.

The Community Development Portfolio Holder commended the work of the local Citizens’ Advice Bureaux (CAB) and explained that the level of grant proposed for the Cambridge and District CAB exceeded the limits which could be agreed by a Portfolio Holder and was thus brought to Cabinet.  She had awarded the other CAB grants mentioned in the report.

Councillor JA Hockney, Chairman of the Community, Arts and Sport Advisory Group, expressed his wish that the grant aid to the CAB continue, and expressed his disappointment at the effect of the budget cuts agreed by Council as part of the capping exercise.

Cabinet AGREED to award a grant of £52,060 to the Cambridge and District Citizens’ Advice Bureau for 2006/07.

Cabinet NOTED the grants awarded by the Community Development Portfolio Holder to the other CABs and the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre for their work in South Cambridgeshire.