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1.1            
That the public and press be excluded from the
meeting by virtue of Paragraph 3 (Information relating to the
Financial or Business Affairs of the Authority) of Part 1 of
Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, in order that the
meeting may consider the exempt Annex to the
report.
1.2            
That a short term (eight month) one-off support
funding be provided to specific at-risk services, as listed within
this report, via the use of Local Transport Fund (LTF) Grant as a
grant of subsidy.
1.3            
That a marketing campaign be undertaken to raise
awareness of the at-risk status of the services and to encourage
patronage to attempt to make these services commercially
sustainable.
1.4            
That authority be delegated to the Director -
Environment and Property to:
(a)       to
finalise the arrangements for allocating the short term LTF funding
to operators to support the listed at risk services; and
(b)      
approve and finalise the allocation of further LTF funding to
support additional routes that meet the same criteria should they
be brought forward after this decision is taken and subject to LTF
fund still being available. That this delegation includes the grant
of authority to the Director - Environment and Property to approve
the allocation of such funding including in cases where such
funding is assessed to constitute a subsidy under the subsidy
control legislation in the future.