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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 13, 2014

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a detailed update on the structures, supports and funding in place to support local Tidy Towns groups; and to outline what plans are in place to disperse unallocated Tidy Towns funding from the 2014 budget?

REPLY:

The Council supports the Tidy Towns and acknowledges the significant increase of all the groups in the results of the 2014 competition.  The Council will continue to support the groups across all departments - Environment, Water & Climate Change, Transpotation, Community Libraries, Architects. Supports include Public realm - Community clean-ups, Bulbs not Bonfires, Green Dog Walking, Anti litter initiatives, 3 year planning workshops, public meetings, liaison with other Tidy Town groups in other counties, Local history studies, village improvement initiatives and funding.

A network meeting has been arranged with the Tidy Towns groups on Monday 13th October where it is proposed to examine the individual reports in conjunction with each group with a view to identifying measures which could be implemented with the support of this Council in 2015 to improve the respective performances in future years.

The remaining 2014 Tidy Towns budget will be discussed at the Network meeting with a view to project allocation funding.