Wednesday, 26 April 2006
The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Jackie Toyne, made a presentation regarding the proposed evaluation project. Jackie reported that evaluation is a vital tool and a compulsory element of the NDC programme. The project will generate useful information on what works (and what doesn’t), and will help guide the development of future work. It will also allow residents to receive meaningful feedback.
The Chief Executive, John Clark, added that this process enables BNDfC and organisations in the area to gather evidence which can then be used to secure other funding and make them more effective and sustainable. The project was approved to go ahead with immediate affect and will run until March 2009.
John Clark presented the Transport Strategy. There had been a number of amendments to the original plan based on proposals by members of the Burngreave–FirVale Transport Strategy group.
We had originally agreed to fund nine schemes. However, it was identified that a key scheme for local residents was the improvements to Grimethorpe Road. This scheme was considerably more expensive than anticipated which required a reprioritising of the original plan to ensure that this important scheme went ahead.
The proposed changes of the transport scheme were noted and accepted by the Board and work is expected to start in the next few months.
John Clark reported that on average approximately 25% of employees in NDC programmes nationally are employed from the local community as compared to Burngreave where 46% of employees live in the area.
John also updated the Board regarding the Transformational Project and the Board noted the contents of the report.
Full minutes of BNDfC Board meeting are available on the BNDfC website and copies are available in the Spital Hill library.