Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk (copy attached).

Consideration was given to a report of the Town Clerk regarding the dissolution of the Department of Environmental Services and the involvement of the Chairman of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee in the appointment of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection and the Director of Open Spaces.

The Chairman advised that this report would also be submitted to the Open Spaces and Markets Committees for information.

RESOLVED : - That,

i)              the report be noted by the Corporate HR Unit and be required to make the necessary preparations to give Port Health and Environmental Services Committee appropriate representation in the future appointments of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection and the Director of Open Spaces; and

ii)             the Terms of Reference of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee be amended at the next appropriate opportunity to reflect the wishes of the Committee.