You are here: About your council / Democracy / Council meetings / Area Committees / Royston Area Committee / Royston - 30 July 2008
Royston & District Area Committee
Wednesday, 30 July 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Committee Room, Town Hall, Royston
Items and Reports
You can download the full agenda and reports here
Agenda and Reports 30.7.08 
Alternatively, the items and reports are detailed individually below.
ITEM 5 - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
To receive petitions, comments and questions from members of the public. No requests to speak have been received.
Any public participation requests received within the agreed time will be notified to Committee Members as soon as practicable.
ITEM 6 - HEALTH
A presentation by Dr John Hedges of The Royston Health Centre Practice.
The major points in his address will be Health Centre development, progress of practice-based commissioning, out-of-hours services, Royston Hospital and any other concerns the Royston and District Committee may have.
ITEM 7 - SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS, ROYSTON 2009-2012
Report of the Head of Community Development and Cultural Services
To advise the Royston and District Committee of North Hertfordshire District Council's Policies and Procedures for Financial Assistance to the Voluntary and Community Sector, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and general grants awarded by the Area Committees.
Item 7 - Service Level Agreements, Royston 2009-2012
ITEM 8 - BT TELEPHONE BOXES
A discussion on the proposal by BT to remove two telephone boxes in Royston.
ITEM 9 -CHAMPION NEWS
Report of the Head of Community Development and Cultural Services
To advise the Committee of the activities and schemes with which the Community Development Officer has been involved since the last Committee Meeting on 11 June 2008, and others which are scheduled for the future.
ITEM 10 - ROYSTON AND DISTRICT COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT AND AREA VISIONING BUDGETS 2008/2009
Report of the Head of Community Development and Cultural Services
This report by the Community Development Officer takes the Royston and District Committee through the current budget balances (Appendix A), grant applications for the Royston Arts Festival (Appendix B), Barkway Village Hall (Appendix C), the Royston Kite Festival (Appendix D), the Young People of the Year event (Appendix E) and proposed schemes referred from the Area Committee to the North Herts Highways Partnership-Joint Member Panel Meeting on 21 April 2008 (Appendix F).
ROYSTON COMMUNITY SURGERIES
The remaining dates for the Royston Community Surgeries for the Civic Year 2008/2009 are as follows:
- 2 August 2008 (at Angel Pavement, weather permitting)
- 4 October 2008 (at Angel Pavement, weather permitting)
- 6 December 2008
- 7 February 2009
- 4 April 2009
The Community Surgeries in August and October 2008 will take place in the open air and run from 10am to 11.30am. The remaining surgeries will take place in Royston Town Hall and run from 10.30am until 12 noon. All Royston Councillors have been invited to attend.
