Issue - meetings

To approve the Democracy Commission Implementation plan and to task the Democracy Commission with phase 2 of their work.

RESOLVED:

1.  That the Democracy Commission implementation plan set out in Appendix 1 to the report be approved.

2.  That the resource implications of the implementation plan be noted and the principle that the budget required to implement the recommendations is transferred from facilities management to communities, law and governance be approved.

3.  That the Democracy Commission be tasked with phase 2 of their work, focusing on the role and powers of community councils in the context of budgetary savings. The Democracy Commission will report their progress to council assembly in April 2011 and make their final recommendations in December 2011.