Hope she now has a partner.
“Cllr Hernandez said she offered her resignation with ‘great sadness’, but said it was ‘untenable to carry out this role effectively when one is a working parent’.
The 39-year-old, who has a five-year-old daughter, said: “The lack of flexibility, lack of decision-making ability, lack of the use of technology, low allowances and extremely limited officer support has exacerbated this.”
She said that unless the mayor changes working practices, she cannot consider being an executive lead again, but she will continue to be a ward councillor.
She said: “I support the mayoral system, but executive leads are advisors not decision-makers and nobody does anything unless the mayor says so. I recognise he’s a very busy man, but it’s Gordon Oliver who sets the standards and makes the decisions and I believe he is not driving change where it’s needed.”
… “You have to be at meetings to input your view. But meetings are usually at school pick-up time. You get £6,000 for being an executive lead and it’s not sustainable. I spend more than that on things like petrol, printing posters and leaflets for community information, and buying coffee or lunch for people I’m trying to persuade.” …
East Devon Watch 
So not enough time, and not enough money to be a councillor.
But suddenly when there is the huge PCC salary on offer, she now has the time for an extremely demanding full-time job which involves quite a lot of evening meetings with the public?
Am I the only one who finds this odd?
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