Consultation begins on future decision-making
Residents, businesses and local organisations
can now have their say on how Harlow Council could make decisions
in the future.
Harlow Council is consulting on whether it
should move to an executive style of decision making e.g. a
directly elected Mayor and Cabinet, Leader and Cabinet or retain
the current Committee system.
The Council has already streamlined its policy
decision-making by creating a new Executive Committee to replace
three former Policy Committees. This structure was adopted on the
basis that consultation would be undertaken on a possible change
for Harlow Council away from a Committee based decision-making
structure to executive arrangements.
Views can be submitted on-line at:
www.harlow.gov.uk/executiveconsultation
via email to: executiveconsultation@harlow.gov.uk
or in writing to:
Executive Consultation, Harlow
Council, Civic Centre, The Water Gardens, Harlow CM20
1WG.
The consultation starts this week and
runs to Friday 1 October
2010.
In September a consultation leaflet will be
sent to all households with Harlow Times, the Council’s residents’
magazine. The leaflet will also be emailed to local businesses and
copies sent to a wide range of local organisations. Public meetings
will also be held.
Councillor Andrew Johnson, Leader of the
Council, said: “This is an opportunity for residents, businesses
and organisations to let us know how they think the Council should
make decisions in future.
"Starting this week people can have their say
on-line or by post and we will also be holding public meetings
where people can tell us their views in person during the
consultation period.“
Following the consultation a report on the
findings will go to the December 2010 Full Council meeting when a
decision will be made on the way forward.