On Air Now

John Clayton

3:00pm - 6:00pm

  • 01723 336444

Now Playing

Freak Power

Turn On Tune In Cop Out

Download

Should All North Yorkshire Council Meetings be Held During the Day?

There are calls for North Yorkshire Council to hold some of it's meetings in the evening to allow more members of the public to attend.

Should North Yorkshire Council hold some of it's meetings in the evening and if they did would you go?

That's the question being posed by members of Filey's local area committee.

Filey Councillor Sam Cross thinks evening meetings could be better for both councillors and local residents.

Councillors on the Filey, Thirsk and Malton area committee also say having some evening meetings would take pressure off the elected representatives, most of who have full time jobs.

Councillor Lindsay Burr would welcome a hybrid approach.

But not everyone agrees that evening meetings would be a good thing. Councillor Alyson Baker says there already many parish council meetings that take place in the evening, she thinks moving North Yorkshire Council meetings to the evening could cause clashes.

Councillor Nigel Knapton is chair of the Thirsk & Malton Area Committee, of which Filey is a part. He points out that not everyone who works does so during the day.

Councillors on the committee have suggested one solution might be to improve the technology used for North Yorkshire Council Committee meetings so that more of them can be live streamed to the public. It was also suggested that there could be more use of video conferencing technology to enable councillors to attend meetings remotely.

 

Did you find this article useful?

This is the Coast is committed to providing a daily local news service for the Yorkshire Coast. We are a small locally owned and operated business which employs professional journalists and reporters. We do not receive any public funding or grants and we are entirely funded by our local commercial operations. We enjoy fabulous support from local businesses who work with us on their advertising and marketing campaigns, but the cost of providing high quality, well researched, fact checked local news coverage is significant.

If you appreciate what This is the Coast does, and would like to help support our journalism, please consider supporting us on a monthly basis today.

A small contribution from all our readers would really help support independent journalism for the Yorkshire Coast.

More from Yorkshire Coast News

Comments

Add a comment

Log in to the club or enter your details below.
450

Follow Us

Get Our Apps

Our Apps are now available for iOS, Android and Smart Speakers.

  • Available on the App Store
  • Available on Google Play
  • Just ask Amazon Alexa
  • Available on Roku

Today's Weather

  • Scarborough

    Sunny

    High: 11°C | Low: 7°C

  • Filey

    Sunny

    High: 11°C | Low: 6°C

  • Whitby

    Sunny

    High: 11°C | Low: 3°C

  • Bridlington

    Sunny

    High: 12°C | Low: 7°C

  • Hornsea

    Sunny

    High: 11°C | Low: 7°C

  • Driffield

    Sunny

    High: 12°C | Low: 6°C

News