Thursday, 2 April 2015
Commissioners to Share Office Facilities with Laxey & Lonan
The Commissioners will begin operating from new offices at 35 New Road, Laxey during April. The office will move from St Maughold's Church Room to premises in Laxey from which both Laxey and Lonan Commissioners already operate.
The consolidation of office facilities by the three Garff authorities will assist in the management of services such as refuse collection which are already delivered jointly, and will also assist delivery of the new services being transferred from government such as hedge cutting, road sweeping, and gulley cleaning.
Contact numbers and e-mail addresses will remain the same.
The three clerks already liaise very closely and it is intended that the move into 35 New Road will allow relationships between the three authorities to be developed even further; whether that be through joint working or actual amalgamation into a single Garff Authority. The latter is an option that is currently being planned. Once proposals have been prepared they will be put to ratepayers for consideration. ¶ 16:28
The consolidation of office facilities by the three Garff authorities will assist in the management of services such as refuse collection which are already delivered jointly, and will also assist delivery of the new services being transferred from government such as hedge cutting, road sweeping, and gulley cleaning.
Contact numbers and e-mail addresses will remain the same.
The three clerks already liaise very closely and it is intended that the move into 35 New Road will allow relationships between the three authorities to be developed even further; whether that be through joint working or actual amalgamation into a single Garff Authority. The latter is an option that is currently being planned. Once proposals have been prepared they will be put to ratepayers for consideration. ¶ 16:28