Issue - meetings

R Baker presented the provisional outturn for 2015-2016 the final report will be presented in July. Full details are in the report.

R Baker was happy to take question.

Cllr Wyatt-Lowe asked if we could provide a flow diagram for the right to buy for the money coming in and going out and the timings for it.

R Baker confirmed he will do that.

Cllr Bassadone referred to the over spend in asbestos page14 – 5.7.

E Brookes said they did more repairs than anticipated it’s a knock on effect from the repair work.

Cllr Bassadone asked if it’s mainly from old boilers being replaced, is this when you find asbestos?

E Brooks said the asbestos can be anywhere and its only picked up when we repair/replace old things. But yes a lot has come from old boilers.

Cllr Adeleke refereed to page 14 responsive repair overspends, what’s in place to stop people abusing the system.

E Brooks said currently there isn’t anything in place to stop people abusing the system.

We have a Tenancy Team working on this and highlighted are the top 200 properties that  have recurrent repairs, this is where a lot of the overspend is.

We are looking at tenancy incentives to stop re reoccurring repairs we are also looking at whether the repairs is urgent or a health and safety issue.

Cllr Harden arrived at 7:40pm

Cllr Adeleke asked if we have legal powers to deal with this.

E Brooks replied, they can say no and gave an example of when they had said no due to abusive behaviour from a tenant and removed them from the planned works programme.

This needs to be used more often and publicised more to tenants.

Cllr Fethney referred to page 14 mould, some cases of mould are dangerous do you liaise to find out what’s urgent/not urgent or dangerous.

E Brooks said we have experts and the contractors are aware what is urgent and what isn’t. Contractors and staff have had training sessions so they are more knowledgeable on this.

L Walsh added to that explaining the new procedure and how they are working with Osborne. Osborne will be working with tenants; they will be monitoring tenant’s lifestyle and visiting tenants and teaching them how to prevent mould.

E Brooks said that Andy Vincent and Fiona Williamson have put in a bid for a re Charge Officer to re charge tenants if their property is not up to a lettable standards when handing their property back.

The bid has gone in and it will be for a trial period for a year.

Cllr Wyatt-Lowe referred to page 19 charges, is it difficulty collecting the money.

R Baker will get back to him about this.

Cllr Mahmood asked R Baker what his view is on the budget so far.

R Baker said he is confident that it’s a robust process going forward and the rates of repairs are being monitored.

Action: None

Outcome: The report was noted.