Issue - meetings

Report of the Leader

RESOLVED THAT

1.    the outcome of the stakeholder consultation process be noted

2.    the Leader be authorised to take a decision, by way of a written resolution, to make the necessary amendments to the CBH Articles of Association and any subsequent amendments required by the HCA following CBH’s Board meeting on 24 September 2014.

3.    A further report to agree the proposed variations to the CBH Management Agreement is brought back to Cabinet for approval in December.

The Leader introduced the report which updated members on the CBC/CBH consultation and proposals to update the CBH Articles of Association. He explained that there were three key areas which were consulted upon which were as follows :

·       Extension of the management agreement to 30 years

·       CBH Board size and composition-reduce the number of Board members and appoint future Board members based on the skills needed to meet the growth of CBH (this included reducing the number of Councillors from 5 to a minimum of 2).

·       Development of the new CBH Business plan and services for the future which CBH might undertake

The Leader reported that the proposals had received positive feedback. Of current work programmes tackling anti-social behaviour had most support. Those consulted felt that repairs were undertaken to a good level and the priority for new projects should now be new affordable housing. The Leader explained that the report was in his name rather than the Cabinet Member Housing as he represented the shareholder interest and as the proposal concerned the articles of the company it was his role to request permission. In terms of the specific management agreement the details would be presented to Cabinet in December 2014.

The Cabinet Member Housing paid tribute to CBH and in particular to the Chair of the CBH Board for his contributions in taking the organisation forward. The additional services provided by CBH were really important to the tenants in the town. His comments were reiterated by other members who were confident in the service that CBH provided for tenants and the wider community in the town. Since self-financing had been introduced CBH had demonstrated that it was possible to invest in housing in progressive and innovative ways.

The Leader thanked the CBH board, past and present for its valuable work.

RESOLVED THAT

1.     the outcome of the stakeholder consultation process be noted

2.     the Leader be authorised to take a decision, by way of a written resolution, to make the necessary amendments to the CBH Articles of Association and any subsequent amendments required by the HCA following CBH’s Board meeting on 24 September 2014.

3.     A further report to agree the proposed variations to the CBH Management Agreement is brought back to Cabinet for approval in December.