--- 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