Minutes for Electoral and Community Governance Review Committee meeting, Nov 18 2010, 7.30PM official page

Purpose of Committee:

 

(a) To consider and make recommendations to the Council on:

 

(i) requests for community governance reviews and how and when they

should be carried out;

 

(ii) any future Parliamentary and District reviews;

 

(iii) the outcome of such reviews;

 

(b) To be responsible for progressing such reviews, including conducting

public consultation in accordance with the Local Government and Public

Involvement in Health Act 2007;

 

(c) To keep under review the need for a larger membership of the

Committee bearing in mind its future workload;

 

Conduct of Reviews

 

The Committee shall be authorised to agree the detailed arrangements for

consulting local communities on such reviews subject to the policy and

budget approved by the Council.

 

Policy Issues

 

The Committee shall if necessary consider and make recommendations to

the Council on future policy to be adopted in regard to such reviews;

To consider the attached report of the Assistant to the Chief Executive on the results of the first stage of consultation under this review, and the issues to which the Council must now respond.

To consider an oral update report on the proposal for a Community Governance Review, involving the transfer of the Greensted Parish Ward of Ongar Town Council to the Parish of Stanford Rivers.

To consider a report of the Assistant to the Chief Executive on the forthcoming review of Parliamentary Constituencies, and a possible extension of the terms of reference of this Committee to deal with that review.

To decide dates of future meetings.