Future Agenda Items
To discuss and propose future agenda items.
Minutes:
The committee discussed the planned new format for the Tottenham and Seven Sisters Area Forum meetings, put into practice at this evening’s earlier meeting. The new format aimed to enable active participation in the topics being discussed by residents, traders, councillors and officers attending the meeting. People attending the forum meeting had been sat on tables with officers and councillors instead of sitting in rows. The tables contained visuals such as maps showing the areas being discussed and there were also briefing notes about the topics of discussion.
Following brief introductions to the topics, group discussions ensued with a further short opportunity given to tables to raise any outstanding concerns. At this meeting representative from Balfour Beatty and TFL had also sat on the tables with residents and had been involved, first hand, in discussions about the Gyratory.
The overall view was that the evening’s forum meeting had been a success as it had allowed residents greater participation in the meeting, with ward councillors facilitating their discussion. There was agreement that the Chair should continue with this format and also keep to specific themes of discussion at forum meetings. The Cabinet Member for Communities would advocate this approach at other Area Forum meetings when meeting with the other Area Forum Chairs.
The next meeting would focus on the environment with topics of discussion around this. Following the success of having visual maps at the forum meeting, it was suggested that there were maps available listing the roll out areas for fortnightly collections.
It was also agreed that a feedback sheet should be distributed at meetings to allow residents to comment of the format and their experience of the meeting. It was noted that a similar evaluation sheet had been used at the recent West Green and Bruce Grove Area Forum and this example could be sent to the Chair to consider for use at the next meeting in September.
The Chair asked for suggestions on venues for future meetings. The local college (CHENEL, Tottenham High Road Campus) was suggested as a venue that could be checked for availability.