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WYRE FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL
Annual report and review 2022/2023
Name of Member: Councillor Mary Rayner
Ward: Broadwaters
Section 1: Attendance at Council, Committee and Sub-Committee meetings
Name of Committee No. of meetings held during the year No. of meetings attended
Cabinet 6 6
Council 5 5
Ethics & Standards 1 1
Licensing & Environmental 4 3
Licensing Sub-Committee 1 1
Members Forum 3 3
Cabinet Advisory Panel – Green Agenda 7 7
Strategic Review Panel 3 3
The calendar of meetings is agreed at the beginning of each municipal year. Occasionally the need arises for additional meetings to be arranged at short notice which not all Members are able to attend due to previous commitments. The table shows only the meetings in the agreed municipal calendar: additional meetings are ignored.
This represents an overall attendance of 97%
Other attendance Number
Period of Extended Absence, (e.g. Maternity leave/Sick leave):
-
Number of meetings attended as a substitute:
-
Section 2: Mandatory Training Completed
Training Activity Date attended
Planning ** 16/08/2022
Treasury Management ** 31/10/2022
Treasury Management ** 30/01/2023
Emergency Planning & Business Continuity 28/02/2023
* Desirable for returning members as a refresher
** Required to sit on the Committee
Other training Number of modules completed
Core e-learning
0
Additional e-learning
0
Cyber security training
3
Section 3: Community Involvement
I have been actively engaging with the local “Friends of the Parks” groups and attending monthly meetings, where possible. I help with park activities and events that they hold.
I continue to do litter picking in my immediate area when the weather and time permit. I am also a member of the Pickup Artists and engage in their community activities in Kidderminster and Stourport when I am available.
I try to attend, on a regular basis, the Lunch Club at St Georges Church and support them by advertising their club to encourage elderly people to engage with other like-minded people. It is also a place where people can meet and raise their concerns about the community.
I have been fortunate to engage with the newly appointed Local Community Liaison officer for Wyre Forest and help signpost the officer to key people in the community and engage with the other groups like DY10 Big Local.
I have managed to recommence contact with the local Safer Neighbourhood Police team via the regular meetings we had prior to Covid-19. These meetings are a platform for raising local residents' concerns about their safety and anti-social behaviour in their immediate areas.
Section 4: Assisting Constituents
Constituents contact me on a regular basis via telephone and email and I have at least 10/12 contacts per week. Their concerns range from housing issues, benefits, fly tipping, planning issues and many more.
Sign posting residents in some cases to the Citizens Advice Bureau, and the Hub when they need help with benefits and so on.
Reporting and requesting the replacement of street litter bins when they have been damaged or removed without authorisation.
Helping to resolve anti-social behaviour by liaising with the local policing team and the Kidderminster and District Youth Trust.
Engaging with external organisations when facilities and utilities are not functioning. Sorting out sewage in the parks with Severn Trent. Recently sorting out and trying to have a post box reinstated on the Stourbridge Road, so I am trying to engage with Royal Mail.
Section 5: Supplementary Information
Residents have sometimes, over the last year, contacted me regarding issues with local Healthcare provision. As a member of Worcestershire Healthwatch (and retired Healthcare professional) I can easily refer residents' health concerns to this organisation, so that their concerns can be resolved or referred on to the appropriate Health Trusts.
I am a Director of Holy Trinity School and have a strong interest in education and its provision for everyone in the community, as I was a Senior Lecturer in a University.
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