Quick preview for Tuesday evening’s
Overview and Scrutiny Panel meeting. Plenty for Members to consider so should
be an interesting one and with enough items to provide some moments of spice. Looks like a full house is expected, which is always nice to see.
A few presentations taking place with the
RNLI commenting on the possible relocation of the Lifeboat House to the Main Sands from
the Rendezvous.
Next up is Matt Hyland from East Kent Opportunities, though the public agenda pack is a little empty when it comes to information on this. Half the reports being put together are confidential and the rest will be part of the presentation.
Next up is Matt Hyland from East Kent Opportunities, though the public agenda pack is a little empty when it comes to information on this. Half the reports being put together are confidential and the rest will be part of the presentation.
Then we have the Budget, with Cllr Rick
Everitt doing the talk and consideration of the past years performance. Looking
at the Panel’s membership and what was said at the Cabinet meeting last week,
it’ll be interesting to hear what Members have to say.
Next up is the
establishment of (deep breath) an Electoral
Registration Process
Review Working Party. Be warned readers, to protect myself against the threat
of RSI, I will only use the shorthand ERPRWP in future… Basically this follows
on from Cllr Will Scobies online analysis about missing voters and aims to give
advice to the Electoral Registration Officer when it is due to report back on 1st
May.
Then we have consideration
of Individual Cabinet Member Decisions. This follows on from the decision over
Leslie Hotel in Cliftonville. The Ward Councillors (Cllrs Hart, Aldred and
Clark) felt they weren’t properly consulted about it and Members felt similarly.
It’s a fair cop. There’s always been a bit of fuzziness about this. The
solution could be to place restrictions on the use of this process but the
Leslie Hotel one I recall was a decision which had to be made with some haste
because of the area. Perhaps we will hear some more info about the process at
the meeting tomorrow. It’s possible we will have another Working Party to look
into this, and no, I’m not going to print the name. Perhaps we can have a
Working Party into the stupidly long names for these things…
We finish up with some
housekeeping items on things like a report on the work programme and the
Forward Plan.
1 comment:
Thanet Council's recent record on electoral registration is worrying, and I am glad that Scrutiny is now planning on looking into this. Hopefully we can come up with some constructive proposals that will allow us to make best use of the resources to tackle this problem. I live in hope.
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