Agenda item

4.1

The minutes of meetings of the Committee held on 21^st March, 18^th and 23^rd April and 15^th May 2013, were approved as correct records and, arising therefrom, in respect of the minutes of the meeting held on (a) 21^st March 2013, Councillor Alf Meade expressed his concerns (i) that the Council, as part of the City’s Climate Change Adaption Strategy, was being too limited in terms of the initiatives it was undertaking, referring specifically to the need for the harvesting of trees for the purposes of supplying fuel for biomass boilers and (ii) at the ability of Veolia to continue providing energy under the Council’s District Heating Scheme due to its resources running out and (b) 18^th April 2013, Councillor Alf Meade referred to the City’s successful bid for funding from the Department for Energy and Climate Change for undertaking a review of governance and ownership of the City’s district heating network, and queried what progress had been made with regard to this.