Wessex - verbal update (00:54:12)
To receive a verbal update from the Head of Housing and Property Services regarding the Wessex partnership.
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Housing provided the Group with an update regarding the Wessex partnership. He reminded Members that the council had given notice to withdraw from the partnership at the end of last year but that it was waiting to make the final decision until the results of a pilot scheme in Exeter were known. Until that time the Council had ceased trading with Wessex.
Discussion followed with regard to:
· The need for negotiation regarding the return of any outstanding monies.
· Advice was being sought from the Legal Department regarding a number of issues in this regard.
· An update would be provided to the Group at the next meeting.
Information relating to a change of name to the company in question would be relayed to the Group via the Committee Clerk.