QUESTION No.8
Reply by the Hon. D.P.H. Liao, CBE, JP, Secretary for District Administration, to Hon. Keith Lam's Question in Legislative Council on Wednesday, 15 May 1985
QUESTION:
Will District Board Chairmen be invited or be at liberty to attend all District Management Committee Meetings in their districts?
Sir,
The answer is no for the moment.
The District Management Committee (DMC) is a
district co-ordinating committee of departmental
It is
representatives whose main duty is to organize co-ordinated
action to meet the needs of individual districts.
responsible for making prompt and positive responses
to the advice of the District Board. The District Officer,
who is the Chairman, makes regular reports on the work of
the Committee to meetings of the full Board. As and when necessary, the departmental representatives also give their views and explain their departmental decisions fully at Board meetings. These arrangements will ensure that the
DMC remains responsive to the District Board. I would
suggest that they should be allowed to get on with their
job with a reasonable degree of independence.
Nevertheless, where the Chairman of the District
Board considers it necessary, and so requests, the District Officer will arrange special meetings between him and the departmental representatives concerned to discuss in detail any district issue which is of concern to the Board.
/Furthermore