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Meeting Reports
LGA General Assembly
One of my jobs as a Councillor is to be one of Bury’s delegates to the Local Government Association General Assembly. The LGA brings together the vast majority of the local authorities in England and represents local government nationally, as well as providing a number of services to local councils and councillors. Bury has four […]
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Meeting Reports, Bury Council
Full Council 25 June 2008
Last night was the Full Council meeting of Bury Council, this is one of the six meetings in the year where all 51 councillors meet to consider important business.
Two issues dominated the meeting:
Questions at Council Meetings
The Conservative Group took control of Bury Council at the elections in May. They proposed a number of changes […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council, Education
Executive Committee 11 June 2008
Last night was the regular meeting of the Council’s Executive Committee. This is made up of nine members of the majority Conservative Group on the Council, myself and the Leader of the Labour Group attend as non-voting members.
The decisions reached were as follows:
Local Area Agreement
The final submission to Government on the targets for Bury’s […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council
Democratic Arrangements Forum
Monday night was a meeting of the Democratic Arrangements Forum, this is the group that brings together representatives of the three parties on the Council, together with the independent Chair of the Standards Committee. As the majority ruling group on the Council, the Conservatives have a majority on this (and all other) Committees.
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Meeting Reports, Prestwich, Young People
Prestwich Local Area Partnership
Last night was the first meeting of the Prestwich Local Area Partnership for the new municipal year. This is the body that brings together the nine local councillors in Prestwich (who are all Lib Dems now!), key partners like the police, NHS and fire service and community representatives from business, charities and local groups.
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Meeting Reports, Bury Council
Annual Council and Mayor Making
Yesterday was the “Annual Council” meeting of Bury MBC attended by all 51 councillors - including the 17 that were elected or re-elected on 1st May 2008.
Annual Council is in two parts - a civic “Mayor Making” and the Annual Meeting itself. At Mayor Making councillors elected Cllr Peter Ashworth to serve as the […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council, Lib Dems
Bury Lib Dems AGM
Last night was the Annual General Meeting of the Liberal Democrat Group on Bury Council. As we’re now up to 9 councillors, it was the largest AGM ever! The Councillors agreed a range of appointments and nominations to committees, working groups and outside bodies which will be proposed to the Annual Meeting of the Council […]
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Meeting Reports, Bury Council
Special Council Meeting
Last night I attended a special meeting of Bury Council. The meeting was to agree the “question” to be put to voters in the Mayoral Referendum on 3 July 2008.
Unlike normal meetings of the full Council, which tend to go on till 10pm, the meeting was very short with only one agenda item. Councillors […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council
Joint Consultative Committee
Last night was a meeting of Bury Council’s Joint Consultative Committee with its staff trades unions. This is an important meeting that brings together representatives of the various Trade Unions which Bury’s employees are members of, with elected Councillors.
There were a number of issues to report.
Equality and Diversity
The Council is doing well having achieved […] -
Meeting Reports, Bury Council
Full Council 26 March 2008
Last night was the last “Full Council’ of Bury MBC for the current Municipal Year. Full Council is the only meeting that brings together all 51 councillors across the borough.
The last meeting of the municipal year has the bad habit of descending into a pre-election slanging match between the Labour and Conservative Party’s, with […]
Tim Pickstone
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Tim Pickstone
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