Posted by Derrick Wheewall
on 29/10/2010, 5:02 pm, in reply to "Parish Council meetings venue"
89.243.230.38
This letter sums up the new parish council to a tee. One word HOPELESS>
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: The Parish Council’s Strategic Review
: Committee - yes, I know you’ve never heard
: of it, but it’s a Committee of the Parish
: Council with five or seven or eight members
: - no one seems quite sure - devoted to
: reviewing things strategically - is in
: process of deciding alternative venues for
: Parish Council meetings, and has come up
: with the idea of occasional meetings in
: Misterton Fire Station.
: Despite its name, the Fire Station is
: actually in Walkeringham Parish, so holding
: a meeting there would be, so far as I know,
: the first to be held outside the Parish, and
: would set an interesting and exciting
: precedent with endless possibilities for
: future experiment.
: Misterton could be the first village to have
: a peripatetic Parish Council, rotating its
: meetings through a galaxy of attractive
: venues. Beginning in a small way, perhaps,
: with the village halls of the five villages,
: and expanding into larger territories as the
: idea took hold - taking a daring step over
: the County Boundary, maybe into Haxey or
: Graizelound, for starters.
: We are often told that younger people need
: to be interested in public matters, so how
: about a Treasure Hunt style meeting, with
: clues leading to a secret meeting place and
: a prize for the first car to make it into
: the car park?
: Many promising locations, alas, would be
: disallowed. No hot-air balloon, for
: example, is big enough for a full meeting,
: so unfortunately that is not on, though the
: fuel costs would be negligible, as hot air
: comes easily to Parish Councils. And it is
: illegal to hold meetings on licensed
: premises, so there’s no chance of a stiff
: drink while the meeting sorts out the
: minutes of the last meeting or two, welcome
: though it would be. But there’s a wide
: choice of other attractive venues.
: The Bus Museum at Sandtoft, or the Tram
: Museum at Crich, when transport is on the
: agenda; County Hall at West Bridgford when
: County matters are under discussion - this
: would save County Officers and Councillors
: from having to find out where Misterton is
: and which County it’s in; or the Pets’
: cemetery at I-forget-where when the talk is
: of dog-muck, or the Front at Blackpool to
: compare their Christmas lights with ours.
: And don’t forget the chances to make PC
: meetings into fun events - at Alton Towers,
: say, or Flamingo Park, or Clumber or even
: Chatsworth, if we’re feeling posh.
: Our new-fashioned PC’s thinking may not be
: exactly joined-up, but it is at least
: outside the box. The last lot took ages to
: move their meetings away from the dismal old
: Village Hall, and only did it when they
: turned up for a midwinter meeting and found
: the heating hadn’t been turned on. The new
: men and women have only been there a month
: or two and already they are breaking new
: ground. All honour to them!
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