An uneventful Town Council meeting
Compared to many, last night’s Town Council meeting was a rather quiet affair. There was very little on the agenda of a contentious nature so the usual party political posturing from Tory members was almost non existant. One member tried to lecture the council about the law on Member’s Interests but got it all wrong! He’d overlooked the fact that we adopted the new Code of Conduct issued by the Standards Board last year!
And the General Purposes Committee agenda was the shortest on record. We have held no sub committee meetings since our last meeting so there were no minutes for approval. Our County Councillor, John Wakefield, attended and answered several questions arising from Paula Furnival’s presentation about the closure of Roseneath. However in view of the fact that we had already resolved to invite the County Council to send a representative to talk to us about Respite and Day Care provision in the town, John only had to field a few general questions.
However he did refer to the effect of the Borough Council’s refuse collection scheme upon the County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centre on Stone Business Park. Apparently the Borough’s blue bin has been so successful in the first two weeks that there has been a substantial reduction in the use of the County’s recycling centre. I do hope that the Recycling Centre doesn’t turn out to be a very expensive white elephant. It’s easy to say it after the event but was there any ‘joined up thinking’ between County and Borough in their separate plans for waste disposal? Is this an argument for only one authority dealing with this service?
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