Agenda and minutes

At this point, Members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda.

At this point, Members were asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they had in the business on the agenda. No Members declared any interests.

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on 3^rd March 2006.

RESOLVED: That the of the meeting held on 3^rd March 2006 be approved with the following amendment:

                                    That minute 11 ‘Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers Licence Vetting Procedure’ be amended so that the first sentence of the fifth paragraph should read: ‘Councillor B Watson requested recording that he had grave reservations regarding the procedure for applicants to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct as referred to in Section b below’.

At this point in the meeting, Members of the public who have registered their wish to speak regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the Committee’s remit can do so.  The deadline for registering is 10.00 am on Thursday 1^st June 2006.

It was reported that there were no registrations to speak under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme.

This report outlined Clifton Without Parish Council’s request that the number of parish councillors elected to the parish council be reduced from fifteen members to ten members.

Members were presented with the following Options:

Option One - Members may agree to conduct a review of the electoral arrangements for the Parish of Clifton Without.

Option Two - Members may refuse to conduct a review of the electoral arrangements for the Parish of Clifton Without.

Members discussed the number of Parish Councillors sitting at present and it was reported that there were 10. Members discussed reference to ‘deterring elections’ in paragraph 8 of the report, as there were more seats than nominees meaning an election would not be necessary.