Agenda item - Minutes of the Previous Meeting

Minutes of the meeting held on 15^th October 2018 (copy attached).

There were several matters arising from the Minutes of the previous meeting which were discussed: 

45.1    Hilary Edgar circulated a list from the Community Team regarding communal spaces and rooms for hire in Whitehawk, as noted on page 7 of the Minutes.

45.2    Alan Cooke requested an update on the Field Officers (FOs) item and the Chair confirmed that the FOs had just been launched officially in the previous week and that she had invited the FO team to a Due East meeting in order to make contact with them.  Janet Gearing asked if certain officers were allocated to certain districts and Hilary    confirmed that they were not allocated by area but were citywide. Councillor Platts asked for a full list of the type of work that the FOs covered to be re-circulated as she queried whether FOs could remove estate agent boards and deal with anti-social behaviour.  Janet Gearing suggested that there should be an article on the Field Officer team in the next issue of Homing In with photos of team members in order to introduce them to residents and that the article should be duplicated in local newsletters with the FO contact details, so that all residents could contact them, when required.  The Chair confirmed that photographs would be useful since all FOs wore a recognisable uniform and that Annie Sparks, Regulatory Services Manager could be interviewed in the article.

45.3    RESOLVED – That the minutes were an exact record of the meeting held on the 15^th October 2018.