Community Involvement in Local Democracy Task Group (Task Group Chairman: Councillor L. J. Turner)
Minutes:
The Chairman of the Community Involvement in Local Democracy Task Group advised the Board that the draft recommendations for the Task Group had now been agreed and the final report would be brought to the Overview Board meeting on 1st June 2010. It would then be presented to the Cabinet meeting to be held on 30th June 2010. The Chairman of the Task Group would be on annual leave on 30th June 2010 and asked the Chairman of the Overview Board to present the report on his behalf, together with the Head of Legal, Equalities and Democratic Services.
The Chairman of the Task Group advised that the draft recommendations had been presented to both the Equality and Diversity Forum and Corporate Management Team (CMT) meeting. CMT had discussed both the feasibility of the recommendations and the financial implications of them.
The areas covered by the recommendations were then discussed in detail by the Board. The Scrutiny Officer confirmed that they had tried to choose recommendations that were both strategic and flexible, but specific enough to produce tangible outcomes, which would help to improve the community engagement in the democratic process and have a positive affect on some of the National Indicators within the Place Survey. The Head of Legal, Equalities and Democratic Services advised that already, requests for information on the Task Group had been received from other authorities and it would be possible to identify from these some capacity for working in partnership with these districts or at County level.
The Board complimented the Chairman of the Task Group on the wide ranging areas that had been covered by the Task Group.