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Reports from Overview & Scrutiny Committees

Meeting: 23/04/2009 - Cabinet (pre 2012) (Item 204)

204 Students in the Community pdf icon PDF 63 KB

Report of the Acting Director of Strategy & Governance (copy circulated separately).

Additional documents:

Decision:

1.     That Cabinet:

 

(a)  Notes the scrutiny recommendations on ‘Students in the Community’ attached to this report as Appendix 1.

 

(b)  Refers the scrutiny report with the recommendations to the next meeting of the Strategic Housing Board asking for comments the report recommendations prior to Cabinet deciding on the a response at its meeting on the 11 June.

Minutes:

204.1         The Cabinet considered a report for the Acting Director of Strategy & Governance concerning the report of the Adult Social Care and Housing Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the impact of students on the city of the Brighton and Hove and its residents (for copy see minute book).

 

204.2         The Chairman invited Councillor Meadows, Chairman of the Adult Social Care and Housing Overview and Scrutiny Committee, to present the report.

 

204.3         Councillor Wrighton, Deputy Chairman of the Adult Social Care and Housing Overview and Scrutiny Committee, echoed the positive comments of Councillor Meadows and hoped that the council would lead on this issue.

 

204.4         In response to comments from councillors supporting the report, the Chairman confirmed that the Cabinet was not rejecting the recommendations, but that it was important to allow the Strategic Housing Partnership to formally comment on the report. The Chairman invited Councillors Meadows and Wrighton to attend the Strategic Housing Partnership meeting.

 

204.5         RESOLVED - That, having considered the information and the reasons set out in the report, the Cabinet accepted the following recommendations:

 

(1)       That the scrutiny recommendations on ‘Students in the Community’ attached to this report as Appendix 1 be noted.

 

(2)       That the scrutiny report with the recommendations be referred to the next meeting of the Strategic Housing Board, asking for comments  on the report recommendations prior to Cabinet deciding on the a response at its meeting on the 11 June.


 


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