Decision details

In the event that the housing futures ballot results in a vote in favour of stock transfer, the Chairman will be requested to call an Extraordinary Meeting of Council to consider the resolutions which would be required to take the issue forward. The provisional date for this meeting is Thursday 18 June 2009 at 2.00 pm. 

The following proposal was DEFEATED by 25 votes to 22:

‘That the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader of the Council and Finance and Staffing Portfolio Holder, be authorised to approve expenditure, outside budgetary provision, to meet the costs of any redundancies and early retirements brought about as a consequence of the proposals in respect of exposing the district responsive repairs service to competitive tendering, the restructuring of the sheltered housing service from a site-based to a floating support model and the reduction in the grounds maintenance budget.’