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"content": "officio members in each of those sub-county boards. This provides an opportunity for elected leaders. When a sub-county is holding their Sub-county Development Board meeting, as a Senator, you have the liberty to attend some of those deliberations. So, that is with regard to the sub-county. More importantly at this level, we are also proposing that we will have people being nominated into the Sub-county Board to represent persons with disabilities, women, community leaders, men, youth et cetera, so that we have an all inclusive Board at the sub-county level. Finally, we are proposing that we establish a Ward Development Board in each of the wards. This will be chaired by the elected Member of the County Assembly and the ward administrator will be the secretary. Chiefs will be ex-officio members as captured within the proposed amendments. At this level, we are proposing, as a Committee, that we also have the Senator and women representative as ex-officio members, so that when you feel like attending some of these ward development meetings as a Senator, you have the opportunity to attend. In this case, you will attend as an ex-officio member. Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, any departmental head of the national and county Government who may attend the ward development board – we have a typographical problem at (o) and we intended it to be a ward development meeting on invitation is the same rationale as it were. I am moving this particular one in an amended version because of that typographical error. Instead of the word “county”, we have the “ward”. We are also providing that the Chairman of the sub-county and ward development boards are the persons who will appoint the other representatives. Representative of persons with disabilities, community leaders, women and all the others will be appointed by the chairperson of the board, but it should conform and reflect the various diversities among the people within that ward. So, I think that, that is fairly important. Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, in terms of the clause regarding the functions, the functions are exactly the same as those of the county development board, only that this relates to the sub-county, if you are talking about the sub-county development board or the ward, if you are discussing the ward development board- Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, the final element is that the operational expenses in respect to the county development board, sub-county development board and ward development board shall be provided for in the annual estimates of revenue and expenditure for each of the respective county governments. So, we are providing that at the end of the day, if a board meeting is going to be held and we need water, tea and some small facilitation, this will be provided within the budget of each of the counties. That will help us to operationalize this. Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I beg to move."
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