REMITS

Policy Committee

General

To maintain a watching brief on local, regional and national matters that may affect the Parish, in particular, long-range local government (to include all public services) administration issues, governance, quality councils and regulatory issues; to identify to Council those which it considers Council should be aware of.

Duties

To identify to Council matters which may affect or improve the long-tem well-being of parishioners and for which it may be appropriate for the Council to take action, either by applying its own resources or by lobbying for third party action.

To only identify the existence of potential issues, leaving to Council the decision whether, and if so how, to consider dealing with the issues.]

As the Council may from time to time direct, investigate matters allocated to it and develop them as far as possible ‘off-line’ involving the Committee’s Chairman, Vice-Chairman and the Clerk, in liaison with the Chairmen of other Committees, as appropriate.

To meet on an ad-hoc basis to review issues for which decisions should properly be made by reference to competing policy issues; to identify such policies.

To report on the issues to Council in such a way as to assist Council to review the appropriate policies and conflicts between them. To act likewise where relevant factual issues may be hard to determine.

Authority

None.