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however opposed it: they favoured the retention of the
present system whereby they are
urban District Boards.
ex-officio members of
52.
There is no question but that the Urban
Council works well under the present arrangements. It
provides a high standard of municipal
services and
plays a key role in the cultural and recreational life
of the community.
53.
The
present
arrangements
do
not: however,
provide for the District Boards to participate directly
in
the work
of
the Council,
public support.
for which
remedied This could be
there is firm
if
the link
between
the Urban Council and
the
Boards
were
to
be
provided by Board
on members sitting
the Council,
rather than by Council members sitting
on the Boards.
Such a link would then obviate the need for members of
the Urban Council to sit on urban District Boards.
54.
Looking
at
the
three-tier
structure
of
representative
government
as a whole, such a
development would have the added merit of rationalizing
the links
tier
District
between the tiers by having each
represented at
the
next higher level,
i.e.
Board members sitting on the Urban Council (as they do
already on the Regional Council) and both Municipal
Councils in turn being represented in the Legislative
Council.
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