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  <title>Meeting
House Management Committee Minutes 2024-04-30</title>
  <author>Convenor: Henry S. Thompson</author>
  <date>Tuesday 30 April, 5:15 p.m., in 7 Victoria Terrace</date>
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 <title>Attendance</title>
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  <item term="Present">
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 <item term="At 7VT">Rachel Fitzgerald (RF), Miranda Girdlestone (MG),
Jacqueline Noltingk (JN),
Henry S. Thompson(HST), Neil Turner (NT)</item>
 <item term="Via Zoom">Sue Sierra (SS)</item>
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  <item term="Copy to">Susie Harding</item>
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  <title>Matters Arising</title>
  <p> 2.1 Wrt 2024-04-16_2.1 CVenues
 ACTION: HST Include a briefing about this in his report to AM.
         Will do
 ACTION: MG Check with City of Edinburgh about a) the validity span of
         an EICR; b) the need for emergency lighting to be checked to
         a standard.
         See 3.1 below
 2.2 Wrt 2024-04-16_2.5 Period products
 ACTION: MG Contract with Hey Girls.
         Done.
 2.3 Wrt 2024-04-16_2.6 Flat 3F2 at 6 Upper Bow
 ACTION) HST 1) Check with City re Short term lets regulation 2) Check
         with Clan Gordon (CG) about whether they would manage.
         See 3.4 below
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 <title>Project updates</title>
 <div><title>CVenues</title>
  <p>HK visited on 27/4, surveyor in as well wrt floor loading, happy,
 further years lighting fixtures mentioned, would need approval from
 us.  Showed him the flat.  No actual reply wrt Licencing Venue.  Not
 particularly happy about Hideout bailing, we've got fealers out to a
 Mimi's Bakehouse and Susie's (Kitchen?).  Summerhall?
 30/5 prevu for arrangements on what gets taken away and to where.
 EICR valid until 9/24 per CEC.
 We've self-tested lighting, all over 2 hours.
 Never been asked by Fire/CEC/...
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<div><title>Lighting</title>
 <p>MG reverted to Gunn/Alexanders: Carbon is horrendous. Timetabled for
 1st week in July.
 We need a decision about cool/warm/...

  ACTION HST: Contact Jean Carletta about more replacable fitting?
    If no, or not quickly, then
   ACTION HST&amp;JK to put a request to Trustees for approval.</p>
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<div><title>Carpets</title>
 <p> Our two guys both said no allergy or smell issue.  No difference in
 risk of lifting.  75% recycled is available for &lt;10% change.

 ACTION HST&amp;JK:  to put a request to Trustees for approval.

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<div><title>Flat 3F2 at 6 Upper Bow</title>
 <p>  HST proposed that we add the use of 3F2 by CVenues to their licence
   agreement.  As a one-off private agreement between us, it means
   it's not a "short-term let".

  MG looked briefly at advertisements for August lets in the centre,
  and reported

    It could be anything from £5,000 per month to £10,000 per month, I think,
    on location alone.
    One room and shared spaces is £1,500 per month, at the lowest. And that is
    quite a way out.
    Even allowing for it being a bit scruffy, anything under £2,500 per month
    would be underselling it in August, I think.
    One chap I found is charging £4,500pm for a double room on the other side
    of the Meadows...

  MG has asked Hartley for 7KGBP/mo

  We AGREED to go ahead on this basis.
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<title>Time without staff</title>
<p>We have had time without staff.</p>
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  <title>Branding</title>
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   <title>Signage</title>
   <p>We have a new sign in the Office window advertising room lettings.
  Work on interior branding is progressing
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   <title>Publicity more generally</title>
   <p>Facebook page is now getting regular updates from Ellie

  Possibility of something in the windows themed around 400th
  anniversary of George Fox, who did preach _somewhere_ in Scotland.
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  <title>Lettings trajectory</title>
  <p>Occupancy is up over 2023, from 1 Jan up thru mid-July
 Income is up by more 10% increase in prices.
 Expenditure is also up, mostly because of the end of energy cost
 subsidy
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<title>Date of next meeting</title>
<p>30 April 2024 1715, 7 Victoria Terrace</p>
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author	Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk>
date	Tue, 07 May 2024 13:10:16 +0100
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