COMHAIRLE NAN EILEAN SIAR

HOUSING STOCK-TRANSFER SUB-COMMMITTEE

Minute of Meeting held in Council Offices, Stornoway on Monday 27 September 2004 at 2 pm.

PRESENT	Mr Angus Campbell (Chairman)
	Mr Alex A Macdonald
	Mr Norman A Macdonald
	Mr Norman L Macdonald
	Mr Donald Manford

		MINUTES
Housing Stock Transfer Sub-Committee of 16 August 2004	1	The Minute of Meeting of 16 August 2004 was approved. Arising out of consideration of the Minute it was noted that the Acting Director of Finance would submit a Report to the next meeting of the Sub-Committee in relation to Item 3 – the Affordability Study commissioned from Arneil Johnson. It was also noted that an assessment of the likely timescale would be submitted to the next meeting of the Sub-Committee.
		STOCK TRANSFER
		It was agreed that the public, including the press, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item on the grounds that exempt information as defined in paragraph 9 of Schedule 7A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 would be disclosed, namely, information relating to any terms proposed or to be proposed by or to the Comhairle in the course of negotiations for a contract for the acquisition or disposal of property or the supply of goods or services.
Draft Hebridean Housing Partnership Business Plan – Initial Response to Stock Transfer Sub-Committee by DTZ Pieda Consulting.	2	A presentation was given to the Sub-committee by Robert McDowall and Anna Evans of DTZ Pieda Consulting.  It was stressed that the draft Business Plan submitted by Hebridean Housing Partnership was a work in progress and that it was unlikely that the Comhairle’s advisers would be in a position to provide sufficient advice to the Sub-Committee to enable the Sub-Committee to make a definitive recommendation on the draft Business Plan to the next meeting of the Policy and Resources Committee and the Comhairle which were scheduled for 11 November 2004.
		It was noted that further scrutiny would take place in relation to the draft Business Plan but that a number of issues required further discussion with Hebridean Housing Partnership and also with Scottish Executive. It was agreed to note the terms of the presentation and that representatives of DTZ Pieda, the Comhairle’s specialist advisers, would continue to discuss the draft Business Plan with Hebridean Housing Partnership and that the Chief Executive would continue to have discussions with the Scottish Executive in this regard and that a more detailed analysis of the Business Plan would be presented to the Sub-Committee at its next meeting on 21 October 2004.