Councillors report for May/June 09

Councillors report for May/June 09
Council performance
The Audit Commission have found that “Hackney Council has continued to ‘improve strongly’ and remains a ‘three star’ council.
Hackney is delivering significant improvement in priority areas such as community safety, children and young people and adult social care. The pace of improvement is higher than the national average with three [...]

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July update

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

July update
Audit Committee
Brian has recently taken over as the permanent Chair of Audit – which really is more interesting than it sounds. It’s responsibilities include
o Managing our relationship with the Audit Commission, who inspect us and give us our star rating
o Approving the accounts, at our late June meeting
o Directing audit and [...]

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April update

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

April update – MORE AWARDS!

Most improved council
Last Wednesday Hackney was recognised as the most improved council at the Local Government Chronicle awards.
The work of our local strategic partnership Team Hackney was also highly commended.
Beacon Awards
A fortnight previously, we had been awarded beacon status in two categories. This is the first time Hackney [...]

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Our report to March

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Our report to March

Councillors Report for March 09
Budget and council tax 2009/10
The council meeting to set the budget took place last night. As intended, we were able to freeze the Hackney element of the council tax again, for the fourth year in a row. Hackney is the only major council in the [...]

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Your councillors’ report

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Your councillors’ report

Councillors Report for January 09
Council performance and budget 2009/10
We intend to freeze the Hackney element of the council tax again, for the fourth year in a row. As far as we know, we are the only council in the country to be able to do this. Residents are on average [...]

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£135 MILLION HOMES BOOST

[news link]
£135 MILLION HOMES BOOST
hg.editorial@archant.co.uk
05 February 2009
The body managing the borough’s council homes is finally set to receive the £135 million for improvements its poor performance caused it to lose out on 16 months ago.
Hackney Homes, the arms-length organisation set up to manage rents, maintenance and repairs, was awarded a two-star performance rating this [...]

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Hackney’s home-grown stars recognised at annual awards ceremony

[from 24 dash]
Hackney’s home-grown stars recognised at annual awards ceremony
Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Housing
Thursday 18th December 2008 – 12:21pm
Two young rising stars from Hackney’s estates swept the board last night at Hackney Homes’ annual resident awards attended by hundreds of residents from over forty tenants group in Hackney.
Ben Woodley [...]

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November update

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

November update

Financial crisis
We are happy to confirm that Hackney did not have any monies in Icleandic or other banks, which have recently collapsed.
The council’s reserves and balances of £344m are spread over 23 institutions, mostly domestic, all of which at the moment seem secure.
Tackling climate change in Hackney
Hackney currently has the lowest [...]

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Our latest report – September 08

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Our September report
What have we achieved?
Since taking back control in 2002, this administration has achieved -
* Stability and continuous improvement in the council finances and management
* Achieved a three star rating (out of 0-4) for overall performance
* Nearly two thirds of council homes meet the Decent Homes standard compared to a quarter [...]

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Guerilla Gardening

Following a discussion on Harringay On Line, Guerilla Gardening sounds like an interesting experiment/experience.
Here the web site.
Anyone fancying the idea of some Guerrilla Gardening initiative in N4?
Leave a comment!

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