Issue - meetings

Further to Minute 112 (8 April 2014), the Cabinet Member for Finance, Growth and Investment presented a report on the outcome of negotiations with Essex and Suffolk Water (ESW) regarding the collection of water and sewerage charges from social housing tenants by the Council on behalf of ESW.

The Cabinet member advised that the commission payable to the Council would increase from the 15% level under the current agreement with ESW to 17%, backdated to 1 April 2017.

The Cabinet resolved to agree that the Council enters into a revised three-year agreement with Essex and Suffolk Water for the collection of water and sewerage charges from social housing tenants, effective from 1 April 2017, on the terms set out in the report.