The Working Group will be invited to appoint a Chair for the meeting.

The Head of Legal and Member Services’ representative invited nominations for the Chair.

On a motion by Councillor Williamson, seconded by Councillor Chris Spriggs, it was –

Resolved (9:4) – That Councillor B Mooney be appointed Chair for this meeting.

The Chair, having welcomed everybody to the meeting, then asked if Members had any disclosable pecuniary interests and/ or any relevant interest in connection with any item(s) on the agenda and, if so, to declare them and state the nature of the interest.

No such declarations were made.

Councillor Fraser suggested that the comment made by Councillor Blakeley that all roads and pavements within Moreton West and Saughall Massie ward identified following inspection should be included in the minutes  along with her comment to support this with reference to all roads in Wallasey

Resolved – That the minutes of 6 August meeting be approved subject to the suggested amendment.

Members noted the contents of the report that had been presented to a previous meeting of the Working Group which set out details of the Integrated Transport Block Capital Programme (2014/15) funding.

The Chair explained that the purpose of this meeting was for Members to identify all road safety works that they wanted officers to assess for feasibility and estimate cost. Members were made aware that they could include potential schemes already on the list. (List A)

David Rees, Road Safety Manager informed members that once a new list has been constructed he would provide Members with costings at a future meeting of the working group (1 October 2014).

A Member questioned road maintenance works that had been planned but had not been undertaken because of delays with utility companies and queried whether these issues could be added back onto the list.

Chris Jones, Deputy Contracts Manager responded by reminding Members that the list could be adapted by their suggestions but it would depend on the issue as to whether items delayed by utility companies would be added back onto this list.

The Chair invited Members to pass suggestions on from each of the six wards. These were then summarised as follows:

Caroline Laing, Constituency Manager enquired with Members about the possibility of moving venues across the constituency to hold Working Groups

All Members agreed that this would be an appropriate option for the meetings and the Constituency Manager was to identify alternative locations for the Working Groups on 17 September and 1 October.