Decisions

To confirm the award of grant funding to those businesses detailed.The total award for this tranche is £10,000 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the fifth tranche of funding allocated under the policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.

To confirm the award of grant funding to those businesses detailed.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the third tranche of funding allocated under the Cohort 2 policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.
The total award for this tranche is £152,500.00 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached.

To confirm the award of grant funding to those businesses detailed.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the first tranche of funding allocated under the Cohort 2 policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.
The total award for this tranche is £193,760.00 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached:

To confirm the award of grant funding to those businesses detailed.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the sixth tranche of funding allocated under the policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.
The total award for this tranche is £198,500.00 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached.

To confirm the award of grant funding to those businesses detailed.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the second tranche of funding allocated under the policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.
The total award for this tranche is £337,290.00 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached.

To confirm the award of grant funding to those businesses detailed.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the fifth tranche of funding allocated under the policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.
The total award for this tranche is £81,160.00 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached.

The award of discretionary funds to businesses is likely to be in the public interest.

The Council has been awarded funding of £4.728m by the government to deliver a discretionary grant funding scheme. West of England regional authorities’ have joined together to develop a framework policy under which grant funding can be delivered, supporting those businesses with fixed ongoing property costs and who were not entitled to claim grant funding from previous government schemes. This is the fourth tranche of funding allocated under the policy and further grant funding will be paid over the coming weeks.
The total award for this tranche is £99,561.00 allocated to the business types as outlined in the table attached.

The Mayor of Bristol has set out the objective of delivering 2,000 new homes per year, of which 800 should be affordable, by 2020. In response to this the Council allocated £57m for the Council to provide grants to Registered Providers and other eligible organisations for affordable homes for rent or supplementary grants to: promote Zero Carbon affordable homes, adopt modular housing and incentivise the building of wheelchair user bungalows. This is the 22nd round of grant funding by the Council under the delegated authority scheme agreed by Cabinet on 2nd April 2019.

Approves the grant allocation to United Communities Housing Association of £2,250,000 for the development of 30 affordable rented homes and a supplementary grant of £500,000, in accordance with the criteria detailed in the Affordable Housing Funding Policy, to United Communities to install in all 50 flats a high level of insulation to improve airtightness (equivalent to Passivhaus standards) and connect to the city centre heat network from the Affordable Housing Funding Budget made under the delegated authority for grant payments (including those in excess of £0.5m) to support the delivery of housing approved by Cabinet on 7th March 2017. Please note attached Financial report.

The Director of Public Health recommends funding from the ring fenced Local Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) is used
to enable the temporary resting place (TRP) at Sandy Park Depot to remain in place for a further six months (until March 2021).
This will mean that body storage capacity in the city, both in existing, substantive mortuaries and at funeral director premises, can be maintained during any local outbreak or wider general increase of COVID-19 related deaths.
Body storage capacity is an identified risk in the management of any excess death. Existing winter pressures put the system under strain. A breach of body storage capacity would present a serious challenge to the management of a local outbreak, both downstream and upstream of the mortuary stage of the death management process.The cost of dismantling and reassembling the facility would be £90,000.
Funding is from the ring fenced Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) and will pay for communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control.
The Outbreak Management Fund is a ring fenced grant to be used for the specific purpose of managing the local response to Covid-19, as described in the Local Outbreak Management Plan
The Director of Public Health, with the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for advising the authority in relation to the Outbreak Management Plan and associated funding.

To allocate funding from the ring fenced Local Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) to enable the temporary resting place (TRP) at Sandy Park Depot to remain in place for a further six months (until March 2021).

The Director of Public Health recommends funding from the ring fenced Local Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) is used to establish a Mobile Testing Unit in Central Location to support easy access for members of the public, university students and FE students. Currently testing is available at Bristol Airport or by post. This location has been found in partnership with the university and will provide a central and accessible location. The site has been approved by regional contain team. This will be one of two mobile sites in Bristol
The approach is endorsed by Health Protection Board and testing is an essential element of the Contain strategy
Funding is from the ring fenced Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) and will pay for communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control.
The Outbreak Management Fund is a ring fenced grant to be used for the specific purpose of managing the local response to Covid-19, as described in the Local Outbreak Management Plan
The Director of Public Health, with the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for advising the authority in relation to the Outbreak Management Plan and associated funding.

To allocate funding from the ring fenced Local Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) to establish a Mobile Testing Unit in Central Location to support easy access for members of the public, university students and FE students.

The Director of Public Health recommends additional capacity within Civil Contingency which provides essential expertise in incident and outbreak management and will be an essential resource in any escalation.
Funding will provide a trained emergency planning expertise to:
•Support the use of incident management JESIP principles – including the creation of shared situational awareness, joint understanding of risk, dynamic risk assessment and defensible decision making
•Deliver concise, documented Outbreak Management procedures
•Ensure procedures are tested and robust
•Ensure escalation routes within the Council and to multi-agency response partners are tested and robust
•Deliver tested operating procedures for activating testing sites
•Provide a link with multi-agency response partners through the Local Resilience Forum, including Police, Fire, Ambulance, Environment Agency, transport and utility providers
•Ensure the impact of outbreaks and outbreak management on BCC’s business continuity is considered
•Ensure the Outbreak Management Group are sighted on other issues affecting the city, including other emergencies and that the impact of these on Outbreak Management are understood
•Provide training and support for responders as required
•Provide training and support for logging incidents as required
•Provide a view on the impact of Outbreak Management on critical infrastructure within the City
Funding is from the ring fenced Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) and will pay for communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control.
The Outbreak Management Fund is a ring fenced grant to be used for the specific purpose of managing the local response to Covid-19, as described in the Local Outbreak Management Plan
The Director of Public Health, with the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for advising the authority in relation to the Outbreak Management Plan and associated funding.

To allocate additional funding to Civil Contingency as Local Outbreak Management is additional to exiting duties, and is additional to on going responsibilities held by the council for risk management and response. Additional resource is therefore required.

The Department for Education (DfE) have approved a capital grant as a ring fenced sum for Christ the King School. The DfE mechanism for distributing the grant to the school is through the Local Authority. This decision is required to enable the forward transfer of the grant to the school to deliver the creation of Early Years provision.

To allocate ring fenced DfE capital grant in the sum of £422,854 for the creation of Early Years provision at The School of Christ the King into the Education Capital Programme. Capital grants to be transferred to the school for project delivery with close monitoring from council officers.

The Director of Public Health recommends additional capacity within external communication to support campaigns, messaging and outbreak management in response to Covid-19. Consistent and regular public communication is essential in both preventing and managing local outbreaks of Covid -19 This will include liaising with neighbouring authorities, the NHS, Public Health England and City Partners. The communication team will work closely with the Director of Public Health and the Bristol Public Health Team. The funding will pay for additional External Communication Officers, to work with the Public Health Team on external communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control.
Funding is from the ring fenced Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) and will pay for communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control.
The Outbreak Management Fund is a ring fenced grant to be used for the specific purpose of managing the local response to Covid-19, as described in the Local Outbreak Management Plan
The Director of Public Health, with the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for advising the authority in relation to the Outbreak Management Plan and associated funding.

To use funding from the ring fenced Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) to pay for communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control in the sum of £210,167