The local community is being given the opportunity to help shape the future of Salt Grammar school.

1 The need for some consultation on the £100,000 "airport money" due to come to Baildon - I strongly feel that there should be a one-off consultation event in Baildon to give the three District councillors some steer as to how the money might be spent.   I think the Town Council would be an excellent vehicle for driving this consultation event forward and I would see the event including the 3 District councillors (2 of whom are Town councillors anyway) plus invitees from the Community Council & any remnants of the Futures Partnership not already covered in the previous categories.  I realise that Roger L’Amie has requested that this be a short agenda item for you on Monday.

2 Possible scope to link the spending of £100k. capital with revenue spending from the Town Council.  We are told that the £100,000 must be capital spend only.  However, some very worthy capital projects may have revenue spending consequences.  To give a hypothetical but possibly real example, there is a noted shortage of play facilities for children in the West Lane area.   Money from the £100k. might be used to purchase a play pod, equip it, and locate it on the Sandals Primary site.  Thereafter revenue funding might pay for a trained play worker to be present on, say, three times2hr sessions per week, delivering a quality play experience to the children present.   If the Town Council thought this scheme "value for money"  it could fund the revenue costs from the precept, and build the funding into its budget base - giving the scheme long term sustainability.  (What I think some Town Councillors do not yet appreciate is  just how fortunate you are to have access to a certain revenue stream: as a District Councillor and especially as Play Champion, I have witnessed workers in the play sector constantly going round cap in hand because so much of their activity is funded from short term  -  2 or 3 year - lottery money or other time-limited government funding).