Agenda item - Chair's Communications

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Chair's Communications

Minutes:

32.1           The Chair communicated the following:

 

“You may know that Rachel Chasseaud left the post of Head of Tenancy Services to take up the position of Assistant Director of the city’s Environmental Services.  Justine Harris has been appointed as Rachel’s replacement.  Justine is currently the Housing Options Manager and will be taking up her new post shortly and is looking forward to attending the next Area Panel.

 

A report is going to November’s Housing & New Homes Committee that will share information about the work the residents’ Estates Development Panel has been carrying out over the summer to make the EDB bidding process simpler and quicker and to announce increased funding for environmental improvements.    This additional money will be spent on work that has been identified through the many different ways we engage with residents.  These include the STAR satisfaction survey, the feedback residents recently gave us during consultation on the delivery of repairs and maintenance, the annual customer satisfaction survey, estate inspections, feedback from complaints and councilors’ enquiries in addition to information from residents associations.  This report will give an outline of what is proposed, with a more detailed report going to committee in January 2019.  A briefing on that report will come to the next round of Area Panels and invite your comments and contributions on the proposals it will make on the future of the Estates Development Budget and how the additional funding is spent”

 

32.2           Residents asked whether there was a gap between the Estate Development Budget (EBD) and the increased funding.

 

32.3           Officers responded that the funding would be quite similar but the proposed amount of money for environmental improvements would increase, not necessarily the EBD.

 


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