Agenda

To elect the Chairman of the Melksham Area Board for the forthcoming year.

To elect the Vice-Chairman of Melksham Area Board for the forthcoming year.

To receive any apologies for absence.

To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 6 March 2024.

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

To receive the following briefing notes through the Chairman:

·       Highways Matters Responses – 6 December 2023

·       Chief Executive of Wiltshire Council

To receive updates from any of the following partner organisations:

·       Community Conversations Team, Forest Melksham

·       Wiltshire Police

·       BSW Together (Integrated Care System)

·       Healthwatch Wiltshire

·       Community First

·       Town and Parish Councils

To receive updates relating to Health in Melksham from the following speakers:

·       Health Provision in Melksham

·       Spa Medical Centre – Roland Teare GP

·       Giffords Surgery – Dr Abby Burgess

To receive an update on the new Family Hub Model from Carl Houghton (Spurgeons).

To receive an update from the Melksham Health & Wellbeing Group.

Part I – Looking Back

To receive the Area Board End of Year Report as well as to report on progress made in addressing the Area Board priorities selected for 2023/24:

o   Children and young people – Cllr Jon Hubbard

o   Community safety and transport – Cllr Mike Sankey

o   Economy, environment, and deprivation – Cllr Phil Alford

o   Older people; health and wellbeing – Cllr Jack Oatley

o   Culture and sport – Cllr Jonathon Seed

Part II – Looking Forward

·       To receive a summary of JSNA Survey Results.

·       To highlight potential priorities for the Area Board to consider for 2024/25.

·       To appoint Members as Lead representatives to Outside Bodies, the Melksham Health & Wellbeing Group and LHFIG (listed on Appendix A) and to note the Terms of Reference as set out in Appendix B.

To note the minutes and consider any recommendations arising from the last LHFIG meeting held on 7 May 2024, as set out below and in the attached report.

Recommendations:

To add the following Issues to the Priority Schemes List with funding (where indicated) Refer to APPENDIX 2

·       Melksham Town / Melksham without / Semington village - Allocate the sum of £4000.00 for the formal advertisement and implementation of parking controls (Waiting restrictions) at various agreed sites.  3rd Party contribution of 25% (£1,000) to be agreed with town / parish councils.

·       Keevil Kerbing works. – Allocate sum of £10,010.00 with 25% contribution (£2502.50) from Keevil Parish council.

To discuss the LHFIG Local Contributions Review.

Further information on the LHFIG process can be found here.

To note the remaining budgets and to consider any applications for funding, as detailed in the attached report and summarised below:

Remaining Budgets:

Community Area Grants:

Older & Vulnerable Grants:

Further information on the Area Board Grant system can be found here.

Any other items of business which the Chairman agrees to consider as a matter of urgency.

To confirm the date of the next meeting of the Melksham Area Board as 4 September 2024.