NOTICE OF
MEETING
COMMITTEE: PERFORMANCE
AND OVERVIEW
(ORGANISATION)
DAY/DATE: MONDAY,
8TH JANUARY 2007
TIME: 2.30PM
VENUE: EAST
COMMITTEE ROOM
MUNICIPAL
BUILDINGS
EARLE
STREET,
CREWE
Despatch
date: 27th December 2006
Enquiries to: Carol Jones
Tel: 01270 537598
Fax: 01270
537605
Chair: Councillor M R
Jones
Tel: 01270 663110
Fax: 01270 651582
E-mail: agendas@crewe-nantwich.gov.uk
To: Members of the Performance and
Overview Committee (Organisation)
(Councillors W T Beard, J A Beech (Deputy
Chair), D Charlesworth, R E Dodd, B Evans, A C Johnson, M R Jones
(Chair), R Jones, Z S Krizanac, J Lewis, D J Straine-Francis and M
J Weatherill)
Chief Executive, Executive Directors,
Assistant Chief Executive
Other recipients of the agenda
Local Press and Radio
Notes for Members of the
Public
The Borough Council welcomes and encourages
members of the public to attend its Committee, Board and Council
meetings.
If you plan to attend, please report to the
Reception Desk in the Municipal Buildings, where you will be
provided with a Visitor’s Pass.
Car parking is not available at the
Municipal Buildings, but there are several town centre car
parks. There is a disabled access to the rear of the
Municipal Buildings, and this can be accessed through the side door
on Vernon Way. Please press the button for attention, and
someone will meet you and escort you through to the main reception
area.
You are asked to remain quiet whilst the
meeting is taking place, and to enter and leave the meeting room,
or public gallery of the Council Chamber, as quietly as
possible. Please ensure that if you have a mobile phone or
pager, it is switched off for the duration of the meeting.
You are not allowed to have drinks or food
in the meeting rooms or in the Public Gallery, other than beverages
offered by the Council during Committee breaks. A “No
Smoking” policy operates in the Municipal Buildings.
Fire Evacuation
If the fire alarm rings, you should make
your way to the nearest exit with your belongings, as quickly as
possible, and leave the building. Please follow any
instructions from staff about evacuation
routes.
Copies of the agenda will be available if
you attend. Agendas are also made available on the Internet and can
be accessed via the Council’s website – see front page for
details.
On occasions, members of the press and
public will be excluded from the meetings when the business to be
transacted is of a confidential nature, for example, dealing with
individual people, contracts and financial affairs of other
parties.
If you require any further information,
please contact Carol Jones the Committee Officer (details on front
page).
AGENDA
1
Apologies
2
Declaration of Interests
Any Member present (including non-Committee
Members) to declare any personal or prejudicial interest, and the
nature of the interest, which they have in any item of business on
the agenda and, if necessary, to leave the meeting prior to
discussion of that item.
Members who also serve as County, Town or
Parish Councillors, are reminded of the need to make declarations
in respect of any item which directly concerns the business of the
appropriate authority.
Declarations are a personal matter for each
Member to decide. Whilst Officers will advise on the Code of
Conduct and its interpretation, the decision to declare, or not, is
the responsibility of the Member, based on the particular
circumstances.
3
Whipping Declarations
Members to declare in respect of items where
the whip has been applied.
4
Record of Meeting
To approve as correct the Record of the
Meeting held on 27th November 2006.
(4)
5
Board Business
5.1 Board Meeting –
11th January 2007
The Committee is invited to comment on Board
reports which fall within its remit.
5.2 Provisional
Items (Board’s Forward Plan)
To consider the Board’s Forward Plan for
February and April 2007. (5.2)
5.3 Responses/Referrals
from the Board or Council
At its meeting held on 27th
November 2006, the Committee challenged the Board’s power to make a
decision in respect of Fees and Charges and considered that it was
for Full Council to decide such matters. The Board, at its
meeting on 30th November 2006, took into account the
Committee’s comments, and as a result, has declined to make a
decision on Fees and Charges, referring the matter to Budget
Council in February 2007.
There are no referrals from Council on this
occasion.
6.
Work
Programme
6.1 The
Committee is invited to agree a work programme for 2007-2008.
A list of topic areas which fall within the remit of the Committee
is attached. (6.1)
7. Date of
Next Meeting
5th February
2007
This agenda can be made available
in larger text on request
Note:
In accordance with the Health and Safety at
Work Act, the Council is required to notify those attending
meetings of the fire evacuation procedures. A copy has
previously been distributed to Members and instructions are located
in all rooms within the Civic Suite.