General Discussion
The only thing that's obvious is your smokescreen around your dismal attendance record. I don't need to hear the whys and wherefores, if your 'paid employment' stops you turning up to council meetings make a choice.
I certainly do understand. I'm curious as to why you feel the need to differentiate it. Do you think the paid element makes it more significant than other unpaid responsibilities? Is it a more worthy excuse for not attending meetings? And just so I'm clear, could you quantify 'numerous'? I intend to ask the same of every councillor whose attendance appears to be below par.
But your paid employment, caring and volunteering responsibilities seem to have stopped you attending evening meetings, so what difference would it make? By the way, the Plain English Society called and asked if we could revert to plain old 'work' instead of 'paid employment'.
Turning up to meetings IS your job, good on Harrie Burrowes for doing the responsible thing. Then there's the Code of Conduct for Councillors. How do you think you score on Obligations 1 and 2? http://m.teignbridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=35570&p=0
If you can't manage the job don't put yourself forward for it. Let's have more committed people representing us.
So according to Margaret Swift, our elected town Councillors can barely scrape an attendance at the planning meetings but she is too professional to air her views. That's a first so naturally my alarm bells started ringing. This needed further investigation. Here's the attendance record for the planning committee members at the 6 meetings since June (per the planning meeting minutes on ...
Please - no one else comment - leave the irony hanging in all its glory!!
Thirded
This thread has been up for a year and has been active for two months yet there hasn't been a peep from the usually mouthy Margaret Swift. Now she realises that it's safe to nail her colours to Mr Week's mast AND can perpetuate her bitchfest with JC, she finally swoops in with her puffed up ego in full feather trying to position herself as champion of the cause and do down a fellow Councillor ...
Out of interest do any of our Town Councillors have a view? If I recall the numbers correctly the response to the petition has far exceeded the response to the Lawn proposals.
