Post by Joe K on Apr 26, 2012 9:37:51 GMT
I guess I won't have any say in the matter of what residents are informed of by the partnership, then, and the committee, whoever is on it, will continue to keep as low a profile as possible, then mutter that the community don't seem to be aware of the partnership's existence...
Community group back on track after "wake up call" letter leaked*
It would be a legitimate question to ask just why I care so much about this, and don't just get on with my own life, fraught as it is. In the words of Billy Bragg, I don't need this pressure, Ron (though I at least know I can get arrested now, even when I don't try).
The answer is a combination of the determination/bloodymindedness which led to the arrest (i.e., if a chairman squeaks that I can't read a partnership document when I need to read it, it's not my business to tidy up the toys he throws out of his pram), and a strong suspicion, supported by a range of events, that while the partnership is ineffectual in most regards, the funding it does receive has disproportionately benefited a very small minority, with little or no scrutiny.
I could walk away from it all this very day (and other community activities which I suspect I can't refer to specifically here because it would give another quango involved with the partnership the excuse to remove the choice from me), and that would certainly keep the grin plastered over Mr Mehter's face. What I am going to do is insist on the right of residents to attend public and committee meetings, as they have always had the right to do, and require that if the committee ever want to remove this right, they advertise this desire to the ward, using every medium available. In the meantime, that same media should be used to notify residents of meetings.
More than a week since the AGM, one would think that the results of the elections would be published. Of course, the majority really don't know, or certainly care, about the partnership's existence, but they will find that they care when it collapses amid recriminations about where the money was spent, and what could have been provided (like a community noticeboard outside the Co-op on High Street), but wasn't.
Why not ask your councillors about it, and see if they are more forthcoming with an election looming...
Barton & Tredworth Contacts
*I don't know why there's a gap in the link, it's not in the draught.
Community group back on track after "wake up call" letter leaked*
It would be a legitimate question to ask just why I care so much about this, and don't just get on with my own life, fraught as it is. In the words of Billy Bragg, I don't need this pressure, Ron (though I at least know I can get arrested now, even when I don't try).
The answer is a combination of the determination/bloodymindedness which led to the arrest (i.e., if a chairman squeaks that I can't read a partnership document when I need to read it, it's not my business to tidy up the toys he throws out of his pram), and a strong suspicion, supported by a range of events, that while the partnership is ineffectual in most regards, the funding it does receive has disproportionately benefited a very small minority, with little or no scrutiny.
I could walk away from it all this very day (and other community activities which I suspect I can't refer to specifically here because it would give another quango involved with the partnership the excuse to remove the choice from me), and that would certainly keep the grin plastered over Mr Mehter's face. What I am going to do is insist on the right of residents to attend public and committee meetings, as they have always had the right to do, and require that if the committee ever want to remove this right, they advertise this desire to the ward, using every medium available. In the meantime, that same media should be used to notify residents of meetings.
More than a week since the AGM, one would think that the results of the elections would be published. Of course, the majority really don't know, or certainly care, about the partnership's existence, but they will find that they care when it collapses amid recriminations about where the money was spent, and what could have been provided (like a community noticeboard outside the Co-op on High Street), but wasn't.
Why not ask your councillors about it, and see if they are more forthcoming with an election looming...
Barton & Tredworth Contacts
*I don't know why there's a gap in the link, it's not in the draught.