Venue: Capesthorne Room, Town Hall, Macclesfield
Contact: Julie North Senior Democratic Services Officer
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Apologies To receive apologies for absence. |
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To approve the minutes as a correct record. |
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Public Speaking Time/Open Session In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relating to the work of the body in question. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.
Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.
Minutes: There were no members of the public present, wishing to use public speaking time. |
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Review of Street Lighting Minutes: At the invitation of the Chairman, Hugh Graham, Manager of Cheshire East’s Street Lighting Team, attended the meeting and provided a briefing to the Committee upon the Council’s programme of review of street lighting. This programme would seek to secure reductions in energy consumption, by switching-off and/or dimming certain street lights between midnight and the early hours of each morning. Agreed: Hugh was thanked for attending the meeting. The details provided as part of his presentation were noted and he was asked back to address the meeting at an appropriate point in the future to provide an update. |
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CCTV Minutes: The Chairman had invited Peter Hartwell, Head of Public Protection and Enforcement, to the meeting to provide a briefing on CCTV issues, following discussion of this subject at the meeting of the Committee on 3rd June 2013. Peter explained to the Committee the work that had been carried out in respect of other areas of the Borough in reviewing CCTV provision. Agreed: Peter was thanked for attending the meeting, and for his presentation, and it was agreed that: a. The Committee would focus, beginning at its next meeting, on a review of CCTV provision in the unparished area of Macclesfield as its first piece of in-depth work. b. The Committee would give consideration, at that meeting, to what work it would need to undertake in order to properly conduct its review. c. A decision would then be made as to how long the review would last. d. Following this exercise, the financial implications of this work would be considered. |
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Declarations of Interest To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
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Macclesfield Community Governance Review Oral update. Minutes: Brian Reed, Head of Governance and Democratic Services, updated the Committee following the most recent stage of the consultation exercise, which formed part of the Review. Information was provided about the public engagement meetings, which had taken place at seven different venues across the unparished area of Macclesfield and a brief summary was given to the Committee of the points raised by members of the public and local Members at those events. A summary of representations made at the meetings was provided to each member of the Committee. Agreed: the update was noted. |
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Dates of Future Meetings To agree dates for future meetings. Minutes: It was agreed that the next meeting of the Committee would take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 10th September 2013, at which the Committee would, along with the business set out in minute 5 above, give more detailed consideration to prioritising other work for the purposes of its emerging work plan. The Chairman also invited Diane Smith, Macclesfield’s Town Centre Manager to attend the next meeting to address the Committee upon town centre management issues. |