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Flintshire Electoral Review

Meeting: 11/12/2018 - Flintshire County Council (Item 77)

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Decision:

That the work undertaken on the review of electoral arrangements for Flintshire be noted.

Minutes:

            The Democratic Services Manager introduced the Flintshire Electoral Review report.  He thanked Members who had attended the recent internal workshop and provided details of the drop in sessions that had been arranged, which would start the following day.

 

            Councillor Attridge moved the recommendation which was seconded by Councillor Bithell.

 

            On the point raised by Councillor Dave Healey at the workshop, the Democratic Services Manager confirmed the option presented would be withdrawn as the Caergwrle ward boundary was wrongly shown on the map provided by the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission Wales.

 

            Councillor Peers said the second paragraph in the executive summary should read “this means having the same ratio in each electoral ward”, not number of electors.  He said at the workshop there only appeared to be officer suggestions of any wards with 26% or above, and that there was no information made available on variance.  He also asked if Members could have access to registers of adjoining wards.  The Chief Executive said those could be made available at the drop in sessions.  The Democratic Services Manager explained that two tables were available at the workshop, one with comments from Members and the second was officer suggestions based on red and amber areas. 

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the work undertaken on the review of electoral arrangements for Flintshire be noted.