As a result of previous discussions on this site, I wrote to Gina Adamou, the Chair of our area assembly, to ask some questions about the way the Harringay & St Ann's Area Assembly works and how we can influence that.
I posted her comprehensive and useful response on the HoL Wiki.
In that response, in answer to my question about how we can influence the agenda and the mechanism for that, Gina wrote the following:
At the first area assembly of the year, residents are invited to propose specific issues for inclusion within their area assembly.
The mechanism needs to be flexible in order to ensure there are opportunities for urgent or emerging issues to be included as appropriate.
Residents can make contact through the neighbourhood teams to express areas of concern to consider for assembly inclusion and of course direct to their Area Assembly Chair.
So here we are, almost at the first meeting of the year. Do we want any control over the year's agenda?
Here's what they're serving up for the first course (February's agenda):
Is that about right? Like it? Want more of the same? Fancy a different sort of agenda? Or don't you give a toss?
Feel free to use this discussion as a kind of scratch-pad to kick around ideas, but if you want to influence the agenda for the rest of the year then roll-up, roll-up and get on down to al the fun of the Area Assembly fair.
Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a year of productive assembly meeting in which we the residents had as much (if not more) say then the local politicians and council officers. Whose meetings are the after all?
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Below is the key part of the minutes from the meeting chaired by Gina Adamou this week, set up in response to our request for a review of the way the area assembly works. It's a start.
Agenda Structure
Participation and Meeting Framework
The Chair agreed to raise with the appropriate cabinet members regarding the issue of who chairs the area assembly (residents / any ward cllr) in future and the management of Council items and the methods used by the Council to carry our public consultation.
It was also agreed that following the May elections the Neighbourhood Manager will arrange to meet with all the ward Councillors to begin to plan the next area assembly which is scheduled for June/July recognising that due to the limited timescales this meeting would be the first opportunity of discussing these changes with the community.
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