Issue - meetings

There were difficulties in convening a meeting of the Sub-Committee during January due to Members’ limited availability. Priority in the early part of the year has been given to publishing the outcome of the Crewe Community Governance Review and establishing the interim arrangements required to enable the new Crewe Parish Council to come into existence from 1 April 2013.

a) Project Plan

Members are asked to review and update the project plan (attached) for the Macclesfield Community Governance Review, to provide a workable timeframe for the conduct of the first stage, taking account of the overlapping timetable with Crewe Community Governance Review until mid-April 2013.     

b) Consultation Leaflet

Members are asked to consider the proposed text of the leaflet to be used for the first stage of public consultation (attached).     

The Sub-Committee considered a revised project plan for the Macclesfield community governance review, together with a first draft of the consultation leaflet.

It was intended that the leaflet to stakeholders would be supplemented by a number of public meetings.

Members agreed on the need for the leaflet to be informative and neutral, identifying all options while not giving the impression of favouring any one of them.

RESOLVED

That

(1)  the Registration Service and Business Manager, in consultation with the Communications Team, give further consideration to the consultation leaflet to ensure that it is clear and balanced, and a revised version be submitted to the next meeting for consideration; and

(2)  the timetable for the project plan be reviewed and reconsidered at the next meeting.