Decision details

The Portfolio Holder for Housing and Communities moved the recommendations and provided a brief introduction to the report.  The Portfolio Holder confirmed that the current Housing Management IT system was no longer fit for purpose and that an improved system was crucial in achieving the ambitions set out in the Housing Improvement Plan. 

The Portfolio Holder noted that the Recommendation 2.5 should read:

Delegates authority to the Chief Executive to call off and award the Contract

Councillor Orson seconded the recommendations in the report.

During debate of the recommendations points raised included:

1. Councillor Evans was in support of the proposals and noted that it was important to ensure that relevant information about individual properties could be accessed so that the council had a complete picture.
2.  Councillor Orson congratulated all those members that had voted to prioritise council housing through the Housing Improvement Plan.

RESOLVED

a)  To APPROVE the use of the CCS Framework for a Housing Management System subject to the solution offered by Northgate Public Services meeting the Council’s requirements;

b)  To APPROVE the addition of £237k to the 2020-21 capital programmes (£143k to be funded from the HRA Regeneration & Development reserve and £94k from Capital Receipts);

c)  To APPROVE £7,500 one off revenue costs to be added to the 2020-21 revenue budgets (£4,470 to be funded from the HRA Regeneration & Development reserve and £3,030 from the Flexible Homelessness Support grant;

d)  To APPROVE ongoing annual revenue costs of £93,822 for the new contract from 2020-21 be added into the revenue budget. £74,492 to be funded from the HRA Regeneration & Development Reserve and the remaining general fund element to be funded by the Homelessness Support Grant with virements to be  completed in line with the Financial Procedure Rules;

e)  DELEGATED authority to the Chief Executive to call off and award the Contract.

The above resolution was voted as follows:

FOR THE MOTION (27)

Bains, Bindloss, Carter, Chandler, Child, Cumbers, Browne, de Burle, Evans, Douglas, Faulkner, Fisher, Freer-Jones, Graham, Hewson, Higgins, Holmes, Illingworth, Lumley, Orson, Pearson, Posnett, Pritchett,  Smedley, Steadman, Wilkinson, Wood.

AGAINST THE MOTION (0)

ABSTAINING FROM THE MOTION (0)