Cllr Oliver Morgan has taken to Twitter to get the public’s feeling on whether Dundalk Town Council’s Corporate Policy Group should continue.
Basically, the CPG – which consists of a select number of councillors along with council staff – meets in the build-up to the monthly meeting of the council to determine the agenda for the monthly meeting.
It appears that the council are having problems arranging this meeting about a meeting though. Regardless of that, is it fair that less than half of our elected officials get to decide the agenda for everyone? I know for a fact that a number of councillors, Cllr Morgan included, have had issues in recent years about raising topics that they and their constituents feel important.
Secondly, surely in the technological age we live in the time of the council staff and the councillors would be better served without such meetings. Could the same work not be achieved via email or some other form of communication rather than trying to get a time that suits everyone?
Talk of the Town 