Issue - meetings

To receive the latest version of the Committee’s work programme and the Council’s Forward Plan.

129.1  The Chair informed Members that the next meeting would take place at Gloucester Guildhall. Suggestions were taken from Members and it was agreed that the Tourist Information Service Report would be discussed at the next meeting.

129.2  In order to examine the matter in detail and following a year after its introduction in the City, it was agreed that the review of the Council’s service provision in relation to Universal Credit would be conducted in March 2019.

129.3  Councillor Hilton noted that a rough sleeping hub in the County had been announced and requested that a short briefing paper on what the project is as well as the input the City Council may have. This was agreed by the Committee. It was also agreed that the Chair would raise the matter of an all-Member briefing at the next meeting of the Member Development Working Group.

129.4  RESOLVED that:- (1) The Tourist Information Service Report to be considered at the next Committee meeting; (2) A briefing paper on the rough sleeping strategy and the new homelessness hub be considered at the February meeting of the Committee; and (3) The Chair to raise the suggestion of an all-Member briefing on the rough sleeping strategy and the homelessness hub with the Member Development Working Group.