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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988
ENSURE THAT THE THE GROUP ACTION OF A SELECT COMMITTEE WOULD
OF AND IMPLEMENTATION ENACTMENT
LEGISLATION WAS CONSIDERED AND MONITORED THOROUGHLY.
GOVERNMENT HAD DR CHAM NOTED THAT AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL, THE
10 URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS DECIDED THAT IN MARCH, 1989,
WOULD EACH
ELECT A REPRESENTATIVE
THE URBAN COUNCIL WHILE URBAN BE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE URBAN
COUNCILLORS
ΤΟ SIT ON WOULD CEASE TO
DISTRICT BOARDS.
HE SAID
THAT CURRENTLY
THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE
INPUT FROM
DISTRICT BOARDS TO THE URBAN COUNCIL.
FOR INSTANCE, EACH YEAR THE URBAN
WORKS COUNCIL CAPITAL
PLACED BEFORE PROGRAMME WAS
BACH DISTRICT BOARD, AND PRIORITIES WITHIN THE PROGRAMME WERE ADJUSTED TO MEET DISTRICT BOARD NEEDS.
MEMBERS OF DISTRICT
THIS WAS DONE TO ENSURE THAT ALL WERE CONSULTED ON IMPORTANT PROGRAMMES SUCH AS CAPITAL WORKS.
HE ADDED THAT AS URBAN
COUNCIL
BASIS, THE
BOARDS
WERE COMMITTEES SELECT FUNCTIONAL SELECT COMMITTEE AT DISTRICT BOARD MEETINGS.
GIVEN TO ANY MATTERS
ORGANISED ON A FUNCTIONAL CONCERNED ALSO MONITORED POINTS RAISED HENCE, CONSIDERATION ON A TWO-PRONG BASIS WAS RAISED BY DISTRICT BOARDS CONCERNING THE URBAN COUNCIL.
LOOKED AT IN THE DISTRICT, WHICH
DR CHAM SAID THAT ALL THESE POINTS MUST BE
OPERATING ENVIRONMENT IN THE URBAN LIGHT OF THE DIFFERED FROM THAT OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL.
MANY MILES APART BETWEEN SEPARATION PHYSICAL
TERRITORIES WERE THE NEW TOWNS IN THE NEW WHEREAS IN THE URBAN DISTRICTS THE DISTRICTS COULD BE AS CLOSE AS THE NEXT STREET,
"IN
CONTEXT, THIS
DESPITE
PROSPECTS
OF
INTRODUCING
BE INEFFICIENCIES AND CONTROVERSIES INTO THE URBAN COUNCIL, ONE MIGHT
DISTRICT BOARD TEMPTED TO TRY OUT THE IDEA OF ONE REPRESENTATIVE PER ON THE URBAN COUNCIL, DR CHAM SAID.
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HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE SENSIBLE TO ADOPT A
COUNCILLORS'
PHASED APPROACH FOR EX-OFFICIO MEMBERSHIP
ON
THE CESSATION OF URBAN
DISTRICT BOARDS.
"WHERE THE INTRODUCTION OF DISTRICT
BOARD REPRESENTATIVES ON
THE URBAN COUNCIL CAN BE EFFECTED IN MARCH, 1989, THE CESSATION OF EX- DISTRICT BOARD COULD OFFICIO MEMBERSHIP OF URBAN COUNCILLORS IN THE
BE REVIEWED BEFORE 1991 WHEN THE NEXT DISTRICT BOARD ELECTION IS TO BE HELD, HE SUGGESTED.
..
THIS PHASING-IN AND PHASING-OUT PROCESS WOULD PERMIT EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION, OF THE URBAN COUNCIL SYSTEM, HE SAID.
/TURNING TO