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Exclusion of press and public to consider senior team appointments and business cases for charging stations and Sprint

.@wmyoungboard report, begins with a moment to reflect on Ukraine and other conflict. They are now part of a national young CA organisation.

And we're on to minutes and reports from committees and boards

Call for review of "viability assessments" for developments: currently this allows developers to get out of building affordable homes, will need government action

.@lisatrickett41: housing needs to be at forefront of Trailblazer Devolution Deal

Review of Housing and Land Policy presented by @LisaTrickett41: housing crisis is the result of decades of non-aligned policy

Two reports on Metro: depot extension and power supply procurement

Sprint schemes on A34 and A45: phase 2 budgets plus walking and cycling improvements

.@brigidjones pointing out that switching everything to electric doesn't tackle road space issues

Electric vehicle transit stations for charging: ultra rapid chargers no more than 7 miles apart. £6.5million initial investment

Not sure if problems following this are my connection or theirs, will try to resume

New equalities scheme for @WestMids_CA introduced by @brigidjones

Marches Help to Own Project in Wolverhampton: innovative housing project, aspiration to roll out more widely and to look at different delivery models

Next up: review of independent remuneration processes, not done since 2017 and now overdue.

Future waves of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund will be allocated to local authorities and housing associations which accept invite to join consortium. Need commitment to long term funding

.@brigidjones also welcomes reassurances on Russian funds

.@brigidjones on the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: working with Coventry and Wolverhampton, but a lot more to do

Final financial monitoring of the year: good news on transport recovery funding.

Cllr Bayton (Scrutiny) says need for good governance in place before new powers are devolved, Scrutiny will want to be involved in the process

Cllr Seccombe (Warwickshire) says report has been to Wellbeing Board, welcomed by health partners