Once again I have pleasure in submitting my annual
report.
As I have said previously I do not, nor will I bore you
senseless with a timetable list of meetings I have attended.
But this will I hope, give you a flavour of what I do.
I have not missed a council meeting this year and in fact I
have missed I think only one in the years I have been a councillor, and on that occasion it
was for an official meeting.
I have chaired the Neighbourhood Management Group this year, sat on the
Highways and Planning Committee and have substituted at both the Heavy Woollen
and the Huddersfield planning committees.
I am still a member of the WYPF Investment group, a place I have held for any years. Last
year I was Deputy Chair of the I T A and Chair of the L T P, but since the formation
of the Combined Authority, there have been many changes
and as there are more to come I will leave it there.
I am also a board member of KCA, a housing charity and a trustee of One
Community, a charity relatively new to Kirklees.
I am also trustee of the Chickenley CO-OP Trust and
was up until quite recently a governor at Chickenley Community School.
I and my colleagues attend meetings of the Tenants and Residents groups
throughout the ward and hold monthly surgeries in the Dewsbury Town Hall; although they are
poorly attended as we are contactable by other means nowadays . Our ward work
is constant and unremitting although that's not a complaint, because we are
here to help, but in these days of austerity and government cuts it is a
challenge sometimes.
