Chairs Update
Keith Ramsay – Chair of Board
Decision:
RESOLVED: That the Chairs update be noted.
Minutes:
The Chair advised the Board that he had been invited to Downing Street on 15th May 2024 along with MP Mark Eastwood, other Town Board Chairs and national organisations that were all committed to Town Boards. Adam Hoxby, Chair of the town’s unit for the Department for Levelling Up Communities and Housing made it clear that towns now had the resources to make positive changes for their community. Dewsbury Town Board now had to use the money to help rebuild the social foundations and fabric of the towns on the programme, key was to increase footfall and economy in the town centre. The Log-Term Plan was a 10-year programme that required a vision statement and three-year plan by 1st August 2024.
RESOLVED: That the Chairs update be noted.