# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1761588668 0 # Node ID 79c34b985df4ffadc40dba224e96324ee7b2627e # Parent 4fa8cf4e724024b4dcc712c13b4bf965c3a5df79 complete, as circulated diff -r 4fa8cf4e7240 -r 79c34b985df4 MHMC/2025-10-20/notes.txt --- a/MHMC/2025-10-20/notes.txt Sat Oct 25 16:06:20 2025 +0100 +++ b/MHMC/2025-10-20/notes.txt Mon Oct 27 18:11:08 2025 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Monday 20 October, 5.15 p.m., in 7 Victoria Terrace * Attendance: JP Ascher (JP, via Zoom), Eliza Giles (EG, observing), - Rachael Fitzgerald (RF), Chris Jardine, Katrina McCrea (via Zoom), + Rachael Fitzgerald (RF), Chris Jardine (CJ), Katrina McCrea (via Zoom), Jackie Noltingk, Laragh Quinney, Henry S. Thompson (HST), Andy Tucker (AT), Duncan Wallace (DW) @@ -148,13 +148,14 @@ * Vacancy management - They're back. + The tenants have returned. * Finance report - C? presented a very well set-out summary of monthly- and - year-to-date figures, which show a very good month in September, for - which HST thanked staff, and + CJ presented a very well set-out summary of monthly- and + year-to-date figures (attached), which show a very good month in + September, and a decrease in the projected deficit each month since + July, for which HST thanked staff. AT feels that the 'overrun' on the staff budget makes him think the budget itself is unreasonable. The question of what the budget @@ -171,9 +172,9 @@ DW points out that there's a local CARES person (Energy Adviser) for this part of Scotland who we should cultivate in time for the next - opportunity. *Action* to DW to work with MS find out who, if the + opportunity. *Action* to DW to work with MS find out if the person we were given to liaise with over the previous application, - is in that. + is the right person. Two heaters have been fixed. Library heater under investigation. @@ -181,11 +182,12 @@ * Report from Majk Stokes Quotes for windows, flooring. Accessibility is an issue. *ACTION* - on AT and MS to give HST somethign for Trustees on 28 Oct. - + on AT and MS to give HST something for Trustees on 28 Oct. * Quinquennial review/News from Trustees + [out of time, will push this higher up next time] + * Staff escalation route if they need backup Trustees wrote to us about this, following up on the meeting in @@ -198,20 +200,19 @@ trustees to be on a reserve backup list in case no-one from MHMC is available." - Phone tree: MHM -> MHMC via HST -> Trustees via MW + All we have at the moment is an informal phone tree: MHM -> MHMC via + HST -> Trustees via Martin Ward - What SCALP gave us was also/more in the direction of how to behave + What SCALP gave us was more in the direction of how to behave towards the police in a less than full-cooperation way. But was not really quite what we expected/hoped for for _building staff_. - De-escalation training! RF to let us know. + De-escalation training! RF to let us know more about this. We will come back to this. * Date of next meeting - 17th 1715 in the Meeting House - -* Any other business + Tentatively 17th November 1715 in the Meeting House ht