COUNCIL CUTS BACK...ON PAPERWORK

Brigg Town Council is to reduce the number of committee meetings it holds.
Instead of having meetings of the Property and Services Committee and the Policy Committee every month, they will meet every other month.
With one fewer meeting in each four-week cycle, this will result in a saving of time for councillors and for those council staff required to attend. Paperwork will also be reduced.
However, the Planning and Environment Committee will continue to meet twice a month, mainly to comment on Brigg planning applications ahead of decisions being reached by North Lincolnshire Council.
Coun Mike Campion, a former Town Mayor, said reducing the number of meetings was sensible.
“Sometimes the agendas are not very full,” he stressed. “And meetings tend to create paperwork. We need to cut down the amount of work the office staff do.”
Current Town Mayor Coun Ben Nobbs, Chairman of the Planning and Environment Committee, said he was concerned that by alternating meetings of the Property and Services and Policy committees, an important Brigg item could arise and have to wait seven or eight weeks to be debated.

However, Coun James Truepenny, a former Town Mayor, stressed there would be provision to call an emergency meeting in the case of “something pressing.”
Deputy Town Mayor Coun John Kitwood (pictured here), long-serving Chairman of the Property and Services Committee which oversees the Angel Suite and the allotments, pointed out that under the current monthly system, meetings could be cancelled in advance, if insufficient business was on the agenda.
But Coun Ed Arnott said cancelling meetings still generated paperwork for the Town Council.
And Coun Ann Eardley stressed that by holding one fewer meeting each month there would be a saving in the cost of room hire.



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