Then endless Planning applications. These were all opposed by the Green party as being "overdevelopment" and unnecessary housing. This is the same Green party who, during the election, pushed a leaflet through my door saying "no more new houses, it will only attract migration". I think they're way to the right of the Tory party round here...
The Town Clerk carefully puts "Councillors' questions" right at the end in the hope people like me won't stay the pace. But I did: I had sent in the two questions below to the Chair 3 days in advance in accordance with the regulations. Come the end of the meeting Steady Eddie Clark declares: "There are no questions from Councillors"! They'd just thrown my questions down the back of the filing cabinet & think they can get away with it. Of course, we'll be seeing about that...
Questions to Cllr Eddie Clark:
1 All nine of the newly elected Councillors were given only four days notice that there was to be an election on 14th May for Mayor and Deputy Mayor giving none of them the chance to decide whether to stand themselves, or discuss amongst themselves who might wish to stand on a joint Mayor/Deputy Mayor ticket.
In addition the Town Clerk issued all new Cllrs with a letter which misleadingly suggested that the issue had already been decided. The same letter also unfairly promoted your own candidacy, despite the fact that, when the letter was written, you had no more claim to be promoted as our next Mayor than any of the other sixteen Cllrs.
In the light of this entirely undemocratic sequence of events, and in the event that you are today claiming to be the Mayor of Leominster, will you voluntarily now step down from that position?
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2 In July last year, the Town Council was obliged by law to open its accounts to view by council taxpayers.
On the 22nd July I emailed the Town Clerk and Deputy Town Clerk asking that I be allowed to view the accounts. They did not reply to me and the window for viewing the accounts – the last day of July – passed without my being able to exercise my legal right to view those accounts. I had already informed members of the Town Council that I had serious concerns about those accounts.
This constitutes gross misconduct by the Town and Deputy Town Clerk and I ask that you put to the Council that they be dismissed.
