10 EDDC meetings listed in this week’s Knowledge:
1 cancelled ( but would have been in private)
2 not needed (Licensing meetings, no licenses up for discussion)
3 meetings in public: Scrutiny, Housing Review and Development Management Committee, where it would be hard to justify secrecy
4 meetings in private:
Asset Management( in spite of assurances that this could be public with only commercially sensitive matters in Part B)
Recycling and Refuse Board Partnership
Community Fund Panel (ANOTHER group with no minutes and no agendas, save a passing reference in January 2015
Transparency gets more opaque.
10 EDDC meetings listed in this week’s Knowledge:
1 cancelled ( but would have been in private)
2 not needed (Licensing meetings, no licenses up for discussion)
3 meetings in public: Scrutiny, Housing Review and Development Management Committee, where it would be hard to justify secrecy
4 meetings in private:
1. Asset Management( in spite of assurances that this could be public with only commercially sensitive matters in Part B)
2. Recycling and Refuse Board Partnership
3. “Community Fund Panel” – which appears to meet in secret to decide whaT to spend money on. As its funds totals only about £22,500 per year it is hard to see why its deliberations are in private. Wouldn’t you want to know why your parish didn’t get funds yet another one did?
4. An intriguing meeting on “Work and Issues facing the Major Project Team in Development Management” ( another secret group with no agendas or minutes? Anyone seen anything about this group and its remit?). Presumably called to justify the hundreds of thousands of pounds being spent on more staff in Development Management. But we will never know!
East Devon Watch 