attendance‏ Cllr Gale Rutland County Council

After posting councillor attendance Statistics I received a e-mail from one of the most hard working County Councillors Richard Gale:

Martin, if you are a fair man you must tell the whole story, but that is something which would not be easy. For Example, There  are at least two councillors that have missed meetings due to ill health, another with a family problems, another that visits his family thousands of miles away for about a month annually. The council is not our lives and does not make us exempt from normal life events that would prevent us from attending some meetings.

 

You must fight along with us that want Council meetings fully recorded, this will show you and the public more important information, that is; who speaks and who does not, who puts arguements forward, who represents the public view and who leave the meetings early.

 

Cllr Richard Gale

 

 

I can only publish what Rutland County Council is willing to give me. I sure if all the reasons were given publicly rutland councillors may see this as an invasion of their privacy. 

I know Oakham Town Councillors don't like the public to know reasons for absence.

 

If members of the public want to find more then I suggest they attend their Council meetings.

 

The full Council meets tonight at 7.00pm

 

 

 

Rutland County Council Chief Executive Helen Briggs Seek and Hide 2

Rutland County Council Chief Executive Helen Briggs 

Seek and Hide 2

 

Helen Briggs 5 weeks into 

what was then her new job at 

Rutland County Council 

Rutland County Council is still hiding the 2010 bank statements for the £19.6 million of public money that it has stashed away. 

It makes no sense that the public are having to suffer spending cuts when the Council has got so much money on deposit.

Rutland and Melton Conservative Association has set a very good example by putting its bank statements in the public domain. 

Would Rutland County Council please inform us when all of the 2010 bank statements requested on 20 January 2011 will be ready for collection. 

Jo Goodliffe

(Jo, Rutland and Melton Conservative Association may not be aware their statements are available for the public to see)

Roger Begy OBE Leader of Rutland County Council Gold Star For Attendance FOI request info on all Rutland Councillors

Roger Begy OBE Leader of Rutland County Council Gold Star For Attendance FOI request info on all Rutland Councillors

Back in January a member of the public wrote asking me to look into Rutland County Councillors attendance.
I am pleased to report the FOI request was promptly handled by Jennette Holdstock and Debbie Muddimer (strategic director) and Geoff, I think there is only one Geoff at Rutland County Council, I won't guess at surname just in case Geoff is not unique.

The following information is for the period from 1st May 2010 to 9th February 2011

Mr Edward Baines (Conservative) - MARTINSTHORPE WARD (Chairman of the Council) 
attended 91% of meetings


(The Council records still has him listed as Independent? Over the years Mr Baines has charge party as far as I know he is currently a Conservative and as been selected to stand again as one in May)


Mr Roger B Begy (Conservative) - GREETHAM WARD  (Leader of the Council) 

attended 100% of meetings  

Mr Kenneth A Bool (Conservative) - UPPINGHAM WARD (Vice-Chairman of the Council)
attended 90% of meetings

Mr Jeffrey T Dale (Independent) - OAKHAM NORTH EAST WARD
attended 92% of meetings

Cpt Vijay Dighe (Conservative) - OAKHAM NORTH EAST WARD
attended 84% of meetings

Mr Trevor C Ellis (Conservative) - NORMANTON WARD
attended 85% of meetings

Mr Richard J Gale (Independent) - OAKHAM NORTH WEST WARD
attended 86% of meetings

Mr Peter J W Golden (Lib/Dem)- NORMANTON WARD
attended 94% of meetings

Mr Peter D Ind (Independent) - UPPINGHAM WARD
attended 90% of meetings

Miss Charlotte L Jones (Conservative) - RYHALL AND CASTERTON WARD
attended 79% of meetings

Mr Peter W Jones (Conservative) - OAKHAM SOUTH WEST WARD
attended 81% of meetings

Mr Terry C King (Conservative) - EXTON WARD (Deputy Leader of the Council)
attended 88% of meetings


Mr Marc A Oxley (Lib/Dem) - UPPINGHAM WARD
attended 79% of meetings
  
Mr Chris A Parsons (Conservative) - RYHALL AND CASTERTON WARD
attended 66% of meetings

Mr Gene Plews (Conservative) - OAKHAM SOUTH EAST WARD
attended 81% of meetings

Mr Hugh E G Rees (Conservative) - KETTON WARD
attended 90% of meetings

Mrs Janine Rodger (Conservative) - COTTESMORE WARD
attended 91% of meetings

Mr Barrie W Roper (Conservative) - KETTON WARD
attended 80% of meetings

Mrs Deborah Stuart (Conservative) - LYDDINGTON WARD
attended 71% of meetings

Mr Nicholas Mark Wainwright (Conservative) - LANGHAM WARD
attended 79% of meetings

Mrs Heather Wells (Conservative) - OAKHAM SOUTH WEST WARD
attended 82% of meetings

Mr Mark Wells (Conservative) - OAKHAM SOUTH EAST WARD
attended 79% of meetings

The Boot award is for the following Councillors:

 

Mr Brian A Montgomery (Independent) - WHISSENDINE WARD
attending only 55% of possible meetings


Mr Trevor Lovell (Independent) - OAKHAM NORTH WEST WARD
attending only 60% of possible meetings

Mr L John Duckham (Conservative) - BRAUNSTON AND BELTON WARD
attending only  54% of possible meetings


And last she got the boot no longer a Councillor.

Mrs Susie M Iannantuoni  (Conservative) - COTTESMORE WARD
attending a possible 55% meetings

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