Re Errors in documents:
It's got my name on it, I hold my hand up, the buck stops here. I apologise to those who have been confused just as I have apologised to the Council's Agenda Committee on whose behalf the documents were prepared.
Frustrated, annoyed, apologetic - yes all of those, not least because we spent a lot of time on this material and we know the errors were corrected at least once, but amendments got cut and pasted back into older versions. I am advised that the error in the date on the agenda paper itself is over-ruled by the calling notice issued in December which is required by our standing orders and that we are required to decide whether any other errors are likely to be material in affecting people's ability to express their views and reaching a clear result. We may not know that until we see the scale of turnout and margin in May.
Procedures - making sure every document is seperately checked, having staff trained to proofread, yes all of those, and clearly they were not enough, we will have to look at it once again.
Missing documents, queries, comments, suggested additions to FAQs - all please to
members.matter@ctc.org.uk which will be checked by myself or Carol McKinley, our new Operations Director, or you can call the main switchboard and they will find us.
Kevin Mayne
