Issue - meetings

To ask Members approval to implement the new Tenant Involvement Agreement as part of the Tenant Involvement Strategy Action plan approved by Members in December 2009.

(Report attached)

RECOMMENDED that

subject to Members’ comments*, the new Tenant Involvement Agreement, attached to the report at Appendix 1,  be adopted.

(*Members’ comments included:

• Fixing the quorum figure for BTP meetings at 4;
• Auditing of accounts in an appropriate and proportionate (‘light touch’) way only;
• Some minor rephrasing and textual amendment to improve the wording, such as using ‘to be apolitical’ rather than (‘not to be party political’).”)

The Committee received a report seeking authority to implement a new Tenant Involvement Agreement, as part of the Tenant Involvement Strategy Action Plan, previously approved by Members in December 2009.

Members generally supported the proposals, but felt some improvement could be made to the wording of some of the detail of the document. Members’ comments included:

·        fixing the quorum figure for Borough Tenants’ Panel meetings at 4 persons;

·        reference should be made to Auditing of Accounts in an appropriate and proportionate (‘light touch’) way only; and

·        some minor rephrasing and textual amendment to improve the wording of the document, such as using the wording ‘to be apolitical’ rather than ‘not to be party political’ in the conduct of business”.

RECOMMENDED that

subject to Members’ comments being incorporated, the new Tenant Involvement Agreement, attached to the report at Appendix 1,  be adopted.