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Meeting Date |
Agenda Deadline |
Agenda Items |
Details and Desired Outcomes |
Witnesses and Report Authors |
29th July |
16th July |
· Cabinet member priorities-written report · Draft Economic Development Strategy- workshop and item on agenda · Draft Commercialisation Strategy |
Members would like cabinet member to provide a report highlighting priorities, and then to question him on this report.
Meeting will begin at 6pm with Economic Development Strategy first on the agenda. |
· Cabinet member · Officers from Economic Development · Consultants working on Economic Development Strategy · Marcus Lawler |
26th August |
13th August |
Maidstone Culture and Leisure items: · Formation of Maidstone Culture and Leisure- outline and timeline · Museum forward plan · Events and festivals strategy · Events review SCRAIP follow up |
These items will all come together as requested by the committee during the work programming workshop at the meeting of 1st July because it was felt they were all related. |
· Dawn Hudd · Laura Case |
23rd September |
10th September |
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21st October |
8th October |
Joint Meeting with Planning, Transport and Development Overview and Scrutiny Committee to consider the Employment Land Qualitative Report and the Economic Development Strategy. |
Implications for the local plan, hence the joint meeting. Needs to take place before the Economic Development Strategy cabinet member decision is taken. |
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28th October |
15th October |
· Skills and Employability Update |
Following the update on skills and employability projects the committee will consider whether it wishes to do a review on skills and employability. |
· Karen Franek · Abi Lewis |
25th November |
12th November |
Enterprise Hub proposals |
To be scrutinised before cabinet member decision, needs to be seen before December |
· Karen Franek |
23rd December |
10th December |
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27th January |
14th January |
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24th February |
11th February |
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24th March |
11th March |
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28th April |
15th April |
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Suggestions TBC
Suggestion |
Reason |
Using the River Medway |
Referred to Scrutiny Co-ordinating Committee |
Policy for Discretionary Business Rates Relief |
Only if MBC can have an influence on business rates. Meeting with Chair/Vice Chair and relevant Officers will determine whether this is the case. Due in August/September. |
South East Local Enterprise Partnership |
Only if MBC can have an influence on any of this. Meeting with Chair/Vice Chair and relevant Officers will determine whether this is the case. |
Barriers to rural business/IT infrastructure in officers (broadband) |
These will be considered following scrutiny of the employment implications of local plan in October, initially led by PT&D OSC. |
Council as a Business SCRAIP follow up |
Dependent on whether members feel it has been overtaken by the commercialisation strategy once they have seen both the review and the strategy |
Night Time Economy |
Referred to Scrutiny Co-ordinating Committee |
Rejected Suggestions
Suggestion |
Reason |
Conversion of Office Space to residential space |
Rejected by all 9 members during workshop |
Mobile phone services (dead zones) |
Not felt to be an issue within the councils remit or control- for the mobile phone operators to sort out |