Committees

Community Services Committee

This committee no longer exists as of May 2007

Sub-committees:

Licensing Panel

Number of Councillors
- 21 (7 a quorum)

Present Membership

Chair: Councillor Jim ONeill
Vice-Chair: Councillor James Raymond

Councillors John Campbell, John McGhee, Stephanie Young, Isabella Macrae, Harry Wilson, Iain Linton, Ray Murray, John Weir, Andrew McIntyre, Helen Coffey, Elaine Dinwoodie, Elaine Stewart, William Crawford, Gordon Cree, Neil McGhee, Thomas Farrell, William Menzies, George Smith, John Knapp.

Terms of Reference
To discharge the Council's functions and oversee service delivery in respect of leisure and recreation services, museums, arts and cultural of development activities, public libraries services, the letting of Council premises excluding educational premises, maintenance of parks, open spaces, amenity areas and other ground owned by the Council, environmental health, waste management, consumer and trading standards, public chemist and analyst responsibilities, burial grounds, registration services, emergency planning, Civil Defence and Community Safety.

To consider individual service policy proposals and make appropriate recommendations to Council.  (Note:  any post implementation review, carried out by Scrutiny Groups).

To consider annual service estimates referred from the Policy and Resources Committee and service budgetary issues referred from the Budget Scrutiny Group. (Note:  Routine service budgetary statements will be considered by the Budget Scrutiny Group).

To make decisions as to removing from operation, service property currently in use.  (Note:  The Property Monitoring Group will review non-operational surplus property).

DLO/DSO FUNCTIONS

HOST SERVICE COMMITTEE / DEPARTMENT
Community Services

DLO/DSO/FUNCTION/BUSINESS UNIT
Leisure Management
Street Cleaning
Refuse Collection
Grounds Maintenance

Host Committees will:-

• review and act upon performance reports from client officers; and
• receive general operational reports and be responsible for supervision and control of respective DLO/DSO Business Units.

Host Department Directors will report to relevant Committees indicating  in what capacity (client or contractor) they are reporting.  In certain circumstances where other Departments have a major client interest in   a particular aspect of a DSO Business Unit the relevant Departmental Director will report to the host Committee.

Delegated Powers
Full delegated powers to deal with all matters detailed within the above Terms of Reference subject to existing Council Policies and compliance with approved Capital and Revenue Estimates.