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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.

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