County Council meeting, Friday 18 April
The next meeting of the County Council takes place on Friday, 18 April at County Hall, starting at 10.30am.
A new County Council Chairman will be elected to replace Margaret Johnson who is retiring from the position after seven years.
Apart from questions to Cabinet Members, the major debate will be on the County Council submission to the Boundary Committee of the Electoral Commission for new county division boundaries to operate from 2009. No changes are proposed for the Bramber Castle Division. However, within the Chanctonbury area of the Horsham District, Ashington could be detached from the Storrington Division and added to the Billingshurst Division. (This change is to enable, with other changes, an extra Division to be created in the Horsham Town area, as the Horsham District will be entitled to 12 instead of the current 11 County Councillors.) If approved by the Electoral Commission in due course there would be 71 County Councillors from 2009 compared with the present 70.
It is possible that the County Council meeting will again be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the County Council’s website. This will not be known until the start of the meeting, so on Friday check the County website via the link on this website for information.
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