Annnual Town Meeting

The Town Council organises an Annual Town Meeting every year.

​​

The purpose of the Annual Town meeting is for the Town Council to explain what it has been doing over the last year and enables electors to have their say on anything they consider to be of importance to the people of the town.

 

The Annual Town Meeting is a meeting of all local government electors of the Workington Parish.

It is NOT a meeting of the Council.

​

The meeting will include a report from The Mayor, plus reports from the Police and principal authority if they are available to attend the meeting followed by a Q & A session for the public. 

​

Public Questions

1. Electors who wish to ask a question at a meeting shall give notice to the Proper Officer of the question it is intended to ask no later than 12noon of the working day before the meeting. The questions stated in the notice given to the Proper Officer shall be the question asked at the meeting. The notice given will clearly state as to which agenda item the question relates to.

2. The Chair will call upon those wishing to ask a question in turn, each questioner being allowed to speak for a maximum of three minutes.

3. Those wishing to speak shall state their name and confirm they reside at an address in the Parish of Workington.

4. Answers to questions may take the form of:

• a direct oral response

• when the desired information is contained in a publication, a reference to that publication or

• when it is more convenient to do so, a written answer after the meeting

   5. Every question or statement shall be put and answered without discussion

   6. Questions shall not be permitted that relate to the individual affairs of either the questioner or any other named person, but should only relate to matters of policy or practice, i.e. matters of a general nature rather than individual concern.

  7. The Chair shall not allow any questions that is in their opinion:

• Defamatory, frivolous or offensive

• Requires the disclosure of exempt or confidential information

• Relates to complaints about individual Members or Officers.

 

Annual Town Meeting

viii.       Electors wishing to speak at the annual Town Assembly are not required to give notice as to the question they wish to ask.

ix.       All other standing orders regarding public participation in meetings should be followed.

x.       The Chair may interject if the topic of the question is not within the powers or control of the Council.

​

Public Representations (statements)

1. Electors may give notice to the Proper Officer that they wish to make representations (statements) in respect of an item of business on the agenda. Such notice shall be received by the Proper Officer no later than 12noon on the working day before the meeting stating the general nature of the representation they wish to make in respect of that agenda item.

2. The Chair shall report any valid notice to the meeting, which shall decide whether to permit such representation.

3. Those wishing to speak, should do so directly to The Chair and shall state their name and confirm they reside at an address in the Parish of Workington.

4. Representations shall not be permitted that relate to the individual affairs of either the questioner or any other named person but should only relate to matters of policy or practice, i.e. matters of a general nature rather than individual concern.

5. The Chair shall not allow any questions that is in their opinion:

   1. Defamatory, frivolous or offensive

   2. Requires the disclosure of exempt or confidential information

   3. Relates to complaints about individual members or Officers.

​

Agendas and minutes from these meetings can be found below.

 

Section 14 of Schedule 12 of the the 1972 Local Government Act requires the meeting to be held between 1 March and 1 June every year.

​