General Discussion
The silence from Duckileaks is deafening! Do your comments apply to the other ten Councillors or did you just jump on a popular bandwagon?
I think Michael Clayson answered the question of ownership of the float earlier in this thread, or it could have been on a different thread. I don't disagree with some of the comments being made but this grant application came to full council due to the Purdah restrictions being imposed by TDC earlier than normal. It would have been better to have had a full F&GP meeting, brought forward ...
We are dammed if we do and dammed if we don't................at least I used my vote to come down off the fence! And actually, for the sake of accuracy, I have not supported them throughout my term of office, in past years I have queried their accounts and voted accordingly. But, on this occasion the accounts were available and for a whole variety of reasons I voted as I did, and I do not ...
Depends which meetings you are blathering on about Mrjrcp, I attend those I can within my work commitments and when I do I try to make positive contributions. Sometimes it's not the quantity but the quality that counts. A bit like this forum in some ways.
Mcjrcp.......like BV said, you need to attend the meetings to hear the full debate then you might, just might, have a better understanding than you do at the moment.
Just to clarify the position. I am not formally a member of the town centre working group as since the Mayor's kind offer the group have not met so I have not been formally accepted onto the group. I actually do not know who the other councillors are on the group, I am assuming MC must be one of them to be so well informed.
I can only go on what was reported at the council meeting last August by a councillor who sits on the town centre working group. He was very clear about how well developed the TDC plans were for a replacement bandstand.
Perhaps the plans that TDC had drawn up for the lawn at that time but were put on hold due to the CCF bid will now be implemented, that would be good for Dawlish.
@MC if I remember correctly, in the Council meeting last August the Mayor offered me his place on the already established town centre working group, which is convened and chaired by TDC. I accepted the kind offer as I wanted to be involved in the work but that group has not met since that time and indeed has not met since February or March last year.
I too voted in favour of awarding the grant to the carnival for many of the reasons stated on this thread. But additionally, I believe in giving everyone a last chance and this, for me, is the 'do or die' year. The Carnival has been awarded money towards the cost of running the carnival and now need to prove to the people of Dawlish and DTC that they can deliver a high quality product in a ...
