Issue - meetings

To consider the Terms of Reference for the Committee and Future Work Programme.

Terms of Reference attached.

Cllr Marren had been invited to attend the meeting by the Chairman and Vice Chairman.

The Chairman had invited Cllr David Marren to address the meeting and to present the Constitution Committee’s majority view of how the terms of reference should be interpreted, which he did, illustrating this view by providing examples of the approach of Nantwich Town Council in the context of asset transfer and service devolution.  Cllr Marren reminded Members that the Constitution Committee, at its last meeting, had considered a report on a proposal of local Macclesfield Members to change the Local Service Delivery Committee’s terms of reference but that this had been rejected; it was his view that this was because the Committee had not completed its initial objectives.  

Cllr Marren suggested that various assets and services could potentially be considered by the Committee as part of its work:

·        Community Halls

·        Market

·        Allotments

·        Public toilets

·        Tourism

·        CCTV

·        Shopmobility

·        Planting of hanging baskets and furniture

·        Street furniture

·        Play equipment

·        Pocket parks

·        Town Centre Management

·        Street Entertainment

·        Christmas Lights

The Committee discussed the report, which had been considered by the Constitution Committee and which had addressed the request of local Members that the Local Service Delivery Committee’s terms of reference should be amended.  The Committee also discussed the list of assets and services which Cllr Marren had put forward, together with others.

Agreed: that the Constitution Committee’s resolution in respect of the proposed changes to its terms of reference be noted; and that officers should bring a report to the next meeting of the Committee which would enable it to agree a work programme with proposed subjects for consideration, and timescales within which this should take place.