Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chairman of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board.

RESOLVED:

That Councillor P Mason be appointed as Chairman for the meeting and that Councillor R Domleo be appointed as Chairman of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board.

To appoint a Vice Chairman of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board.

RESOLVED:

That Councillor B Dowding be appointed as Vice Chairman of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors R Domleo and
K Keegan.

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests in any item on the agenda.

No declarations of interest were made.

Members of the public wishing to address the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board on reports contained within the agenda for the meeting shall be given the opportunity to do so subject to:

1          the opportunity being extended to one person to speak in support of each agenda item and one person to speak against each agenda item when called to do so by the Chairman;

2          an indication of the desire to speak on the agenda item being made by the person just prior to the meeting and the name supplied to the Democratic Services Officer in attendance, the first person registering to have precedence in the event of more that one person wishing to speak either for or against the agenda item;

3          each person addressing the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board being limited to three minutes speech;

4          an opportunity being provided for an expression of a contrary view, even though no prior notice has been given, when a member of the public has spoken for or against the item;

5          in the event of the person having registered to speak on an agenda item not wishing to take up their right to speak on the agenda item because it was deferred, that person will automatically be given the right to speak on the agenda item at the next meeting of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board;

6          the Chairman of the meeting having discretion to rule that a person wishing to address the meeting shall not be heard if, in his/her opinion, that issue or the organisation or the person wishing to make representation on that issue has received an adequate hearing.

There were no members of the public present.

To consider the Terms of Reference, Constitution and Powers of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board. 

Consideration was given to the Terms of Reference and Constitution of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board, which had been agreed by the Cabinet and Executive of the respective Authorities. 

The respective Authorities had also delegated those functions not reserved to the Council, relating to Extra Care Housing, to the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board.  In turn the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board delegated its functions to the Lead Authority –Cheshire East Council, to allow actions to be taken as requested by the Board on behalf of the two Authorities.

RESOLVED:

(1)       That the Terms of Reference, Constitution and Powers of the Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board be noted.

(2)       The Joint Extra Care Housing Management Board delegates its functions to the Lead Authority.

To consider whether to approve the re-submission of the Outline Business Case for Round 5 Extra Care Housing PFI.

Consideration was given to a report which sought approval for the re-submission of the Outline Business Case for Round 5, subject to approval from the respective Council’s Cabinet/Executive as regards affordability.

The Outline Business Case had been originally submitted in April 2009 and had been further refined since then to bring it in line with comments received from the Housing and Communities Agency.  The Outline Business Case proposed that 337 new Extra Care units were developed on four sites located in Sandbach, Poynton, Blacon and Ellesmere Port, of which a minimum of 200 would be for social rent.  The resubmission of the Outline Business Case would allow the Councils’ interest in Extra Care Housing Round 5 to proceed to the next stage. 

RESOLVED:

That the Outline Business Case for Extra Care Housing Round 5 be resubmitted, subject to approval from the respective Council’s Cabinet/Executive as regards affordability.