Issue - meetings

To consider the PCSO Match Funding report.

RESOLVED to:

1.     That the Council enters into a two year PCSO joint funding agreement,

commencing no earlier than 1 October 2018 with the Stansted, Henham

and Elsenham Cluster.

2.     That the Council enters into a PCSO one year joint funding agreement,

commencing no earlier than 1 October 2018 with Saffron Walden Town

Council.

3.    That the draft 2019/20 budget is increased to cover the remaining six

months funding for a second PCSO.

Councillor Ranger presented the report that set out the proposal for the allocation of the Council PCSO match funding monies as agreed in the 2018/19 budget, which would increase the number of PCSOs employed in the district. In the autumn of 2017 the Council had approached Town and Parish Councils to establish the level of interest in joint funding PCSOs, and Saffron Walden Town Council and the parish cluster of Stansted, Henham and Elsenham had come forward with bids.

There was a consensus among Members that this was an excellent initiative.

            RESOLVED to agree:

a.               That the Council enters into a two year PCSO joint funding agreement, commencing no earlier than 1 October 2018 with the Stansted, Henham and Elsenham Cluster.

b.               That the Council enters into a PCSO one year joint funding agreement, commencing no earlier than 1 October 2018 with Saffron Walden Town Council.

c.               That the draft 2019/20 budget is increased to cover the remaining six months funding for a second PCSO.