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Notes:
ANNUAL REPORT OF ACTIVITIES 2010/11
Ward Activities this year, including outside bodies:
Over the last 12 months I have dealt with many enquiries and complaints, most of them from my ward of Habberley and Blakebrook. The main thrust of the complaints are housing based and I have a very good working relationship with Wyre Forest Community Housing.
I also receive many complaints about Highways and Education matters. Unfortunately, the working relationship with the County Council is not so good. I find the County Council a very challenging organisation to work with.
As the only Councillor from the Labour Party in the Habberley & Blakebrook Ward, I have to work on my own. I put out five newsletters a year. This is intended to keep the residents within my ward informed on Council issues and decisions. There is always a return slip on the newsletter with my address and phone number, so that the residents can contact me to request a visit or make any point they wish to make.
I have always done and continue to do walkabouts in different parts of my ward. Meeting people in the street or in their gardens and engaging them in conversation on council issues, this is both popular and effective. I find that people are genuinely interested and want to talk as long as it is not during an election period. I have tried surgeries. They do not work, hardly anyone turns up. I find that newsletters and weekly walkabouts more effective.
I am Group Leader of the Labour party and I regularly attend committees that I am not an official member of.
I am the Council Representative on Kidderminster and District Youth Trust and I am a board member of Wyre Forest Community Housing.
Highlights:
Not for me to say. See electorate of Habberley and Blakebrook.
Special Knowledge:
I have received regular training particularly on Licensing matters. I also receive intensive training from the Community Housing Group.
Attendance Percentage for 2010/11
91% (subject to the Sports & Leisure Centre Review Panel meeting to be held on 17th May 2011).
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