A meeting of the North Devon Locality (County) Committee will be held on the above date at 11.30am or on the rising of the HATOC (whichever is the later) in the Hall, at The Castle Centre, 25 Castle Street, Barnstaple EX31 1DR to consider the following matters.

PLEASE NOTE VENUE

PHIL NORREY

Chief Executive

A G E N D A

PART I OPEN COMMITTEE

(During which members of the press and public may attend the meeting)

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Minutes of the meeting held on 29 June 2010, attached (Page 4).

3. Items Requiring Urgent Attention

Items which in the opinion of the Chairman should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency.

4. WHAT CAN WE LEARN?

(During this part of the meeting there will be an opportunity for Members to hear from local communities or groups on local issues or consider any questions or feedback received from individual members of the public)

(a) North Devon AONB and Biosphere Service: Matt Edworthy, Biosphere Reserve Outreach Co-ordinator and Linda Blanchard, North Devon AONB Manager to report.

(b) Feedback/Representations

(i) Issues to raise at the Locality Committee from Members serving on other bodies as representatives of DCC (for example, Local Children s Trust)

(ii) Diversity Event: Alison Boyd, Locality Development Officer to report

(iii) Opportunity for Feedback from District Council and DALC Representatives

5. HOW ARE WE DOING?

(This part of the meeting will enable Members to be kept up-to-date with developments in the locality and monitor the provision of services, to help them identify issues that may need to be addressed or upon which representations may need to be made to influence local and national policy making; complementing the work of other relevant bodies such as the County Council s Scrutiny Committees)

Property Rationalisation: Richard Buzzacott, Head of the Business Transformation Unit to report.

6. HOW CAN WE HELP?

(During this part of the meeting Members will consider requests for financial support either from Members Locality Budgets or other sources of funding and respond to/advise local Councils and other organisations on the needs of this locality)

[NB: Where presentations or background papers are available for any of the above items these will have been circulated, wherever possible, in advance of the meeting]

(a) North Devon County Committee Locality Budget 2010/11 - Confirmation of Spending Proposals and Spend to Date for 2010/11: Report by the County Community Strategy Officer (CX/10/109 - text only | pdf CX/10/109), attached (Page 7).

(b) Devon Special Olympics 2012: Update by Councillor Haywood.

7. OTHER MATTERS

(a) Member Development Steering Group: Minutes of the meeting held on 10 September, 2010, attached for information (Page 13)

(b) Cabinet Forward Plan: The Committee asked for the Cabinet s Forward Plan to be circulated with future agendas. The current Forward Plan is attached (Page 15) and available on the DCC website at: http://www.devon.gov.uk/forward_plan4.pdf

(c) Future Meetings

(i) Dates

To note the following:

Next Meeting:

22 March 2011

Subsequent Meetings:

28 June 2011

25 October 2011

(all Tuesday mornings, after the HATOC)

(ii) Work Plan/Items Identified for Future Discussion

Inspiring Young People (Sustainable Community Strategy theme)

Pilots involving Parish and Town Councils on New Ways of Working as part of Local Government Reorganisation

Implementation of The Way Ahead - Data and Trends Information

Ilfracombe Narrowing the Gap Project

Respite Care (Young Carers)

Work of the Devon Youth Service in North Devon

PART II PRIVATE SESSION

(During which items may be taken in the absence of the press and public for specific reasons only)

Nil.

Members are reminded that Part II reports contain confidential information and should therefore be treated accordingly. They should not be disclosed or passed on to any other person(s).

Members are also reminded of the need to dispose of such reports carefully and are therefore urged to return them to the Committee Secretary at the conclusion of the meeting for disposal.

Membership

Devon County Council Councillors Haywood (Chairman), Cann, Chugg, Davis, Edgell, Fowler, Greenslade and Yabsley North Devon Council Councillors Luggar and Tucker Devon Association of Parish Councils Councillor Geen

Declaration of Interests

Members are reminded that they must declare any interest they may have in any item to be considered at this meeting, prior to any discussion taking place on that item.

Access to Information

Any person wishing to inspect any minutes, reports or lists of background papers relating to any item on this agenda should contact Peter Stiles on 01392 382289.

Internet

Agendas and minutes of this Committee together with any officers reports considered at the meeting are published on the County Council s Website at: http://www.devon-cc.gov.uk/dcc/committee/mingifs.html

Copies of this Agenda and/or Reports may be made available in other formats (e.g. large print, audio tape, Braille or other languages). Please contact the Information Centre on 01392 380101 for more information.