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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF ANNUAL MEETING

Friday, June 07, 2019

HEADED ITEM NO. 4

HEADED ITEM: C. Performance and Change Management Directorate

ELECTION OF SPC CHAIRS DESIGNATE

*The SPC Chairs serve on the Corporate Policy Group with the Mayor and the Chief Executive

REPLY:

The appointment of 6 members to be Chairpersons of the 6 no. Strategic Policy Committees to be formed in accordance with the S.P.C. Scheme are made in accordance with Circular letter LG07/2014 attached.

Following the local elections, it is necessary for each county and city council to establish new SPCs in line with the revised guidelines published by the Department in June 2014 entitled: Corporate Policy Groups and Strategic Policy Committees: Guidelines for establishment and operation. (attached).

The statutory basis for SPCs is set out in section 48 of the Local Government Act 2001 (the 2001 Act). Furthermore, section 48(1A) of the 2001 Act, as inserted by section 41(a) of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, requires that at least one of the SPCs that is established shall be to consider matters which relate to the functions of the local authority in relation to economic development and enterprise support. Accordingly, each local authority shall form an SPC entitled the “SPC for Economic Development and Enterprise”. This is the home in SPC scheme for the economic development and enterprise support functions. The functions of this SPC are to include the preparation of the economic elements of the Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP), the implementation and review of the economic elements of the LECP and the oversight by the elected members of the operation of the Local Enterprise Office (LEO).

Particular attention is brought to paragraph 3.2 of the Guidelines (page 8, attached) and particularly the requirement that 'The chairs are appointed by the full council for a minimum period of three years and the overall spread of SPC chairs must, in accordance with the guidelines, reflect the elected representational spread on the full council. It is also important that the SPC chairs appointed by the full council should, as far as it is practical, be representative of each of the municipal districts in the local authority, and in local authorities without municipal districts, be representative of each of the area committees'.

The six SPCs for nomination of Chairs Designate are as follows: