29^th July

16^th 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

26^th August

13^th 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 1^st July because it was felt they were all related.

·         Dawn Hudd

·         Laura Case

23^rd September

10^th September

21^st October

8^th 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.

28^th October

15^th 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

25^th November

12^th November

Enterprise Hub proposals

To be scrutinised before cabinet member decision, needs to be seen before December

·         Karen Franek

23^rd December

10^th December

27^th January

14^th January

24^th February

11^th February

24^th March

11^th March

28^th April

15^th April

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

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