Have your say...some guidance for the perplexed.

In Babergh Matters you will have received a card that asks you to give your opinion about changes that are being proposed to the Constitution of the Council.

At present we have a Committee System, but many Members would prefer to move to a system where councillors are more directly accountable to the electorate for different areas of the Council's work under a Leader and Cabinet or an elected Mayor and Cabinet system.

This is a perplexing choice for the general public to make, and is not really helped by the paucity on information that is included with the voting card.

To find out a little more about the choices on offer you can take a look at the council paper on the subject that can be found on Babergh's website. This paper, in addition to outlining the current consultation, has an appendix in which the advantages and disadvantages of a Cabinet system as against the current arrangements are set out clearly.

If you wish to take a look at this please e mail me at antillj@btinternet.com and I will send you details of the links.