To note dates of future meetings and discussion on venues and agenda items
8 September 2011
12 January 2012
29 March 2012
Minutes:
MH1. To note dates of future meetings and discussion on venues and agenda items
The Chair, in asking the Committee to note the dates of the Committee for the remainder of the Municipal Year 2011/12, commented that the meeting venues should be in each of the four ward areas of the Committee. The Chair gave a caveat to this point by stressing that the purpose of the Committee was to discuss strategic cross-ward issues and not individual area issues and therefore it was not a ‘local discussion’ per se.
The Committee AGREED that the locations for the meetings should be in the following areas
8 September 2011 – Fortis Green Ward [since changed to 15 September]
12 January 2012 – Highgate ward
29 March 2011 – Alexandra Ward
In response to a request from Councillor Hare in respect of the September date possibly being changed, and in clarifications to when this date had been agreed the Clerk to the Committee and Committee Manager – Mr Hart advised that the dates of the Committees/Forum had been received through the political groups and then agreed by annual Council on 23 May 2011. The practical difficulties in changing the meeting dates in September was due to the political party annual conferences each year at that time, as well as the need to feed the area committee cycle for the September period into the Overview and Scrutiny committee meeting in early October 2011.
In terms of the agenda items for future meetings the Chair and Members AGREED that the Committee would mainly concentrate on the following topics:
15 September 2011
· Area Plans
· Budget 2012/13
12 January 2012
· The implications and effects of the Localism Bill on the ambit and function of the Area Committees
29 March 2011
· Transport funding issues
RESOLVED
That the location of the remaining Area Committees and the topics for discussion during 2011/12 be noted as outlined above.