Councillor Paul Di Mascio (North Lanarkshire Council); Councillor John Shaw (Renfrewshire Council); Councillor Colette Stevenson (South Lanarkshire Council) and Councillor Amanda Westlake (Shetland Islands Council).

Councillor Stephen Thompson (Dumfries & Galloway Council) and Councillor Alister Mackinnon (Highland Council).

Councillor John Shaw, Convener, presided.

J Welsh, Director, H Carr, Head of Strategic Procurement, and S Brannagan, Head of Customer and Business Services, (all Scotland Excel); E Currie, Senior Committee Services Officer and K O’Neill, Assistant Democratic Services Officer (both Renfrewshire Council).

Councillor Colette Stevenson entered the meeting prior to consideration of the following item of business.

There was submitted a report by the Director of Scotland Excel indicating that Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership had submitted an application to become an associate member of Scotland Excel.  

DECIDED: That the application by Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership to become an associate member of Scotland Excel, at an annual membership fee of £15,518, be approved subject to completion and signing of the agreement document.

There was submitted a report by the Director of Scotland Excel indicating that North Glasgow Housing Association Limited, trading as ng homes, had submitted an application, on an emergency basis, to become an associate member of Scotland Excel in order to instruct works as a result of issues arising from the Grenfell Tower fire.  

The report intimated that paragraph (h) of Scotland Excel’s Scheme of Delegations authorised the Director “to act in an emergency situation with the approval of the Clerk and where possible after consulting the Convener, or in his absence the Vice-Convener of the Joint Committee and the Chair of the Management Group, and thereafter report on the action taken to the first available meeting of the Joint Committee."

The Convener and the Legal and Democratic Services Manager, Renfrewshire Council, acting in the clerk’s absence, had been consulted and agreed on the Director’s course of action to approve immediate associate membership.

DECIDED: 

(a) That the Director’s decision to approve the application by ng homes to become an associate member of Scotland Excel, at an annual membership fee of £8,160, be noted; and 

(b) That it be noted that in terms of the Scheme of Delegations the Director would submit a report on this matter to the next meeting of the Joint Committee to be held on 8 December 2017.

There was submitted a report by the Director of Scotland Excel indicating that Westlo Housing Management Limited had submitted an application to become an associate member of Scotland Excel.  

DECIDED: That the application by Westlo Housing Management Limited to become an associate member of Scotland Excel, at an annual membership fee of £3,660, be approved subject to completion and signing of the agreement document.

Provost Bill Howatson (Aberdeenshire Council); Councillor Angus Douglas (Angus Council); Councillor Graham Hutchison (City of Edinburgh Council); Provost Norman Macdonald (Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar); Councillor Altany Craik (Fife Council); Bailie Norman MacLeod (Glasgow City Council) and Councillor Todd Ferguson (North Ayrshire Council).

There were no declarations of interest intimated prior to the commencement of the meeting.

DECIDED: That it be noted that the next meeting of the Executive Sub-committee would be held at 10.45 am on 15 September 2017 in Scotland Excel Meeting Room 1, Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley.