Agenda
- Attendance details
- Agenda frontsheet
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- Agenda reports pack
- Item No. 5 - Responses from Community Councils on Informal Consultation PDF 5 MB
- Item No. 6 - Scottish Borders Community Council Scheme - Comments Highlighted PDF 500 KB
- Item No. 7 (a) - Scottish Borders Community Council Scheme - Additional Docuements - Comments highlighted PDF 2 MB
Venue: Via Microsoft Teams
Contact: Declan Hall: Tel: 01835 826556 email: declan.hall@scotborders.gov.uk
Link: Teams Live Event
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Welcome |
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Apologies for Absence |
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Order of Business |
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Consider Minute of Meeting held on 17 October 2023. (Copy attached.) |
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Responses from Community Councils on Informal Consultation Consider responses attached from: (a) Crailing, Eckford and Nisbet (b) Duns (c) Earlston (d) Hawick (e) Hobkirk (f) Innerleithen & District (g) Kelso (h) Leitholm, Eccles and Birgham (i) Peebles (j) Reston & Auchencrow (j) Selkirk and District (k) Upper Teviotdale and Borthwick Water (l) Walkerburn & District
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Scottish Borders Community Council Scheme Consider amendments and comments received to date and review. (Copy attached.) Additional documents: |
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Scottish Borders Community Council Scheme - Additional Documents (a) Community Council Training Handbook (b) Community Council Election Handbook (c) Community Council Constitution – example (d) Community Council Standing Orders – example (e) Community Council Complaints Procedure – example (f) Community Council Equalities Statement – example (g) Community Council Privacy Notice – example (h) GDPR Briefing Document for Community Councils (i) Community Council Documentation Retention Schedule (j) Financial management best practice guidance (k) Following the Public Pound Code of Practice for Community Councils (l) Planning Guidance for Community Councils
(Documents attached.) Additional documents:
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Scottish Borders Community Council Scheme - Additional Documents Additional documents:
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Timeline for Consultation Consider timeline for informal and then formal consultation on amended Scheme. (Extract from Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 attached)
(a) Informal consultation with Community Councils – any changes required to boundaries or membership numbers and comments on Scheme and accompanying documents (b) Meeting of CC Scheme Review WG to consider final draft document (c) Special meeting of Scottish Borders Council to approve draft document for statutory public consultation (d) Meeting of CC Scheme Review WG to consider consultation responses and amend draft Scheme as appropriate (e) Special meeting of Scottish Borders Council to amend draft Scheme if required (f) Further public consultation to make representations on amended draft Scheme if required (g) Meeting of CC Scheme Review WG to consider any further representations received if required (h) Special meeting of Scottish Borders Council to approve final Scheme for Community Councils. |
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Next Meeting Consider date for the next meeting of the Working Group. |
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Any Other Business |