Issue - meetings

(i)         to approve commencement of the Community Food Growing Programme (“the programme”), as listed in Appendix 1;

(ii)        to approve the estimated expenditure (as detailed in Appendix 1) in relation to the proposed programme including potential procurement exercises up to individual contract values of £25,000;

(iii)       to delegate authority to the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development in consultation with the Convenor of Communities Housing and Infrastructure to amend the programme should priorities and feasibilities change during the year; and

(iv)       to instruct the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development to report back to this Committee in one years’ time with a review of the recommended programme.

The Committee had before it a report by the Interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure which sought approval for a package of measures to generate the best outcomes from the £145,000 capital budget allocated in support of the emerging Food Growing Strategy for Aberdeen; a duty under Part 9 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. The projects and initiatives identified will deliver community food-growing spaces and seek to promote and facilitate community food-growing city-wide.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee -

(a)       Approve commencement of the Community Food Growing Programme (“the programme”), as listed in Appendix 1;

(b)       Approve the estimated expenditure (as detailed in Appendix 1) in relation to the proposed programme including potential procurement exercises up to individual contract values of £25,000;

(c)       Delegate authority to the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development in consultation with the Convenor of Communities Housing and Infrastructure to amend the programme should priorities and feasibilities change during the year; and

(d)       Instruct the Interim Head of Planning and Sustainable Development to report back to this Committee in one years’ time with a review of the recommended programme.

The Committee resolved:-

to agree the recommendations.