In the announcement concerning delays to the roll out of High Speed Broadband I have noted the following statement on the under Questions and Answers section
Why have we not been told about the delay sooner?
- The gravity of the situation was explained for the first time during our CDS Board meeting in September where the new owners of Gigaclear and management team attended. We have been working on a resolution position since this time. This work has culminated in the announcement made today
I hereby request and require you to provide to me the following information in respect of the above-mentioned Board Meeting (the Meeting) of CDS
The Agenda for the Meeting
There was no agenda for the pre-meeting, but the agenda for the main Programme Board meeting is published on the Connecting Devon and Somerset website
The date of the Meeting
The meeting was arranged as a pre-meeting to the CDS Programme Board and took place on 13 September 2018 at 12pm.
The place and address where the Meeting was held
The address where the meeting took place was the Committee Suite, County Hall, Exeter.
The names of the persons who attended the Meeting together with their job titles and names of their employers.
Attendees:
Gigaclear
Andy Wells, CDS Delivery Director
Jo Scarrott, CDS Programme Director
Joe Frost, Business Development Director Infracapital
Andy Matthews and Stephen Nelson, CDS Programme Board
Phil Norrey, Chief Executive Devon County Council
John Wilkinson, Divisional Director Community Regeneration, Bath and North East Somerset Council
Simon Gregory, Projects and Programmes Manager, North Somerset Council Councillor Tom McKillen, Mendip District Council
Councillor Philip Bullivant, Teignbridge District Council
Councillor Rufus Gilbert, Cabinet Member for Economy, Enterprise and Skills, Devon County Council
CDS Team, Keri Denton, Programme Director, Devon County Council,
Katriona Lovelock, Programme Manager, Somerset County Council
Phil Roberts, Programme Manager
Peter Doyle, Head of External Affairs, Devon County Council
Matt Barrow, Community Liaison Officer, Devon County Council.