Let's hope not. The chairman of the parish council is the same as it was before and so is the vice chairman. Elected you might say, but from what I've heard in the past there is some back door campaigning going on, to be polite, which is not on. It was common knowledge that 'they' had decided to move the chair around to different individuals each year, so what has happened this year.
There are some very competent ladies sitting on the council and bearing in mind that they got most of the votes I would have thought choosing a new chairman they would have taken this into account. Still at least when the shit flies we know which way to send it.
I'm a bit confused as well. We had an Annual Parish Meeting in June when the the new chairman and vice chairman were elected along with committee members. According to the agenda for the 8th July, there is another Annual Parish Meeting where there is now going to be committee reports and of course that elusive chairman's report. Somebody dropped a whatsit or what.
On another completely different matter, no good having a low bridge sign on Marsh Lane when it is covered up by tree foliage. Surely wouldn't it have been better to have it sited somewhere near that ridiculous roundabout than where there was no room to turn round other than using Albion Place to shunt and take the corner wall down.
The Annual Parish Council Meeting takes place every May, and it's at that meeting that the Chairman, etc. are elected. It's a legal requirement.
ReplyDeleteThe Annual Parish Meeting is a legal meeting of electors. Unless the legislation's changed since I was Clerk, it must be held between 1 March and 1 June annually. This is the meeting at which the annual reports are given. So, unless the legislation has changed, the law has been broken if there was no Annual Parish Meeting between 1 March and 1 June this year.
You just can't get staff who know their onions
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