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What is Scrutiny?
Review of Election cycles - Adur District Council
The Overview and Scrutiny Committee as part of their work programme have agreed to investigate whether Adur District Council should move from elections by halves to elections of the whole Council every four years.
Terms of reference
1 To carry out a review on behalf of Adur District Council as to whether they should move to four yearly (whole Council) elections.
2 To report and make recommendations to the Council on their findings.
At their meeting held on Tuesday 16th September 2008 the Committee determined the scope for the review, the report can be accessed here:
- Overview & Scrutiny election cycles working group report 16-09-2008 (.PDF 35kb)
- Overview & Scrutiny election cycles working group minute 16-09-2008 (.PDF 8kb) - at a subsequent meeting the membership of the working group was altered from that shown in this minute - the new membership is shown below.
A Working Group of three members was appointed:
The Working Group held regular meetings and the notes from these can be found below :
- Overview & Scrutiny election cycles working group notes 21-01-2009 (.PDF 12kb)
- Overview & Scrutiny election cycles working group notes 11-12-2008 (.PDF 10kb)
- Overview & Scrutiny election cycles working group notes 20-11-2008 (.PDF 9kb)
The Working Group asked for written submissions, responses can be viewed below :
- Written submission from Chief Executive (.PDF 76kb)
- Written submission from Executive Head of Legal & Democratic Services (.PDF 8kb)
- Written submission from Lancing Parish Council (.PDF 197kb)
- Written submission from the Executive Head of Financial Services (.PDF 14kb)
- Written submission from the Electoral Services Manager (.PDF 8kb)
Consultation:
- A consultation exercise took place - for a summary of the results (.PDF 18kb)
- A report on the 'Review of Four Yearly Election Cycles' has been prepared for submission to the council for its consideration (.PDF 54kb)
Please contact Scrutiny & Improvement Officer, on (01903) 221108 or send the Scrutiny & Improvement Officer an e-mail to find out how you can take part in consultation for the review.
