Thanks to the EDA investigation, EDDC now has a “Register to Vote” link at the top of its home page on the internet!
Quick work … now let’s see it find those missing thousands!
Daily Archives: 6 Jul 2014
Budleigh parking: should we blame Eric Pickles?
… Mr Pickles is also urging Town Halls to “turn idle assets into money” to protect front line services. The government is allowing councils to use money raised from the sale of assets, such as empty buildings and redundant brownfield land, to help pay for the costs of improving local services and to keep Council Tax down.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-fund-to-help-councils-fight-fraud
Does our council leadership see a new HQ on the edge if Exeter as an “improvement” that income from the car park could fund?
Local government and transparency: the rules
In advance of the controversial meeting of EDDC that will attempt to curtail public speaking, and bearing in mind the increasing secrecy in which decisions are being made at EDDC, it is perhaps timely to remind everyone of the requirements that councils must adhere to in these circumstances:
Click to access Your_councils_cabinet_-_going_to_its_meetings_seeing_how_it_works.pdf
and to note this comment from that document:
It is a criminal offence if, without a reasonable excuse, a person who has in his or her custody a document10, which the national rules require to be made available to the public, refuses to supply the whole or part of the document or intentionally obstructs any other person/s from disclosing such a document.
If a person is found guilty of such a criminal offence, he/she can be fined up to £200.
The missing 6,000 (some of) the evidence
Electoral Commission give evidence on voter engagement
Is East Devon one of the 6% of local authorities failing to reach targets for registration? We must await the response to a Freedom of Information request (see below)
East Devon Watch 