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The Interim Charging Order
This, in italics below, is the interim charging order which council chief executive Mark James is attempting to enter on the Land Registry. I have until Thursday register my objections. I have already...
View ArticleNews in Brief - redundancy costs, executive jobs, filming and more from...
I've been a little puzzled recently over information given out by the council press office about the total cost of exit packages as the authority sheds jobs, mainly low paid jobs.There was something of...
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Carmarthenshire Council governance "in disarray and not fit for purpose" -...
Cneifiwr has had sight of a letter from the co-opted voting member of the council's Audit Committee, and former Lord Mayor of London, Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis to the WLGA Governance Review Panel....
View ArticleRearranging the deckchairs; Part 94...
Back in July (see 'Getting Engaged') I mentioned that a report had appeared by the Policy and Resources Scrutiny Committee to improve public engagement. Well, a month later, the minutes for that...
View ArticleRoger's parting shot?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Meryl's Meetings and one in particular in which Cllr Meryl Gravell (Ind) rubber stamped a grant for £2.6m. The meeting lasted all of fifteen minutes, the public and...
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Shuffling the deck
I'm sure next Wednesday you will be tuning in, in your thousands, to the first full Carmarthenshire Council meeting of the autumn term.Unlike Pembrokeshire, where discontent abounds and extraordinary...
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Carmarthenshire Council - Questions on the agenda!
Further to this morning's post, Shuffling the deck, there appears to be some last minute excitement over next week's agenda for full council. It's been amended twice, so far. Firstly, details of the...
View ArticleMeryl and the £2.6m grant - a turn for the worse
Further to reports this week over her approval of a £2.6m grant to a company in Cross Hands things seem to be taking a turn for the worse this evening for former leader and Executive Board member Cllr...
View ArticleGovernance report - a confidential draft? - Updated
Update 9th September;With reference to the WLGA response in yesterday's update, another term for 'interim observations and emerging proposals' is a 'draft report'. All 74 councillors should have had a...
View ArticleSeptember Council meeting...and those 'councillors questions'
Today's council meeting was the first of the autumn term. With around eighteen apologies for absence, quite a few had yet to make it back. Including Meryl, unless she was being kept busy with the...
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Gloucestershire Police - Freedom of Information review
Back in May, the 12th to be exact, I made a Freedom of Information request to Gloucestershire Police for details of the criminal investigation relating to Carmarthenshire County Council.The...
View ArticleA way with words
The next meeting of the council's Community scrutiny committee meets on Friday and one item on the agenda is an update on the tendering process for minor works, up to £150,000.The council uses a...
View ArticlePublic Question Time
After the 'Questions from councillors' fiasco at last week's council meeting we look forward to next month's gathering when the long awaited WLGA governance report is supposed to be on the agenda. It...
View ArticleFriday's Audit Committee (aside from the elephants)
The council's Audit Committee meets on Friday and the rather dry looking agenda hides the fact that there are serious issues on the cards. Not least of all the letter from the lay member of that very...
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Meryl's grants - the press office to the rescue!
With the increasing interest in what have become known as Meryl's Millions, the council seem to be going to some lengths to assure the enquiring public that everything is above board.As I have said,...
View ArticleFinal Charging Order...and Mr James is off
The telephone hearing was held at 2pm this afternoon and Mark James was granted his final charging order on my home for his damages from his unlawfully funded counterclaim.The other news this afternoon...
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Will anyone think of Meryl...?
I've heard that many Carmarthenshire citizens are deeply concerned about the welfare of Cllr Meryl Gravell since Mark's forthcoming departure was announced yesterday.According to several unreliable...
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Planning; A local victory
I'd like to mention a story in this week's Carmarthen Journal concerning a planning victory for local Carmarthen residents as it's a twist in the tale from a post I had written eighteen months or so...
View ArticleNext week's agenda, and the missing WLGA report
The agenda for next week's full council has just been published and one item is notable by it's absence. At the September meeting it was promised that the long awaited final WLGA governance review...
View ArticleSeverance
Some further thoughts on the voluntary severance scheme approved by the executive board in September 2013 which seems to be Mr James' preferred departure route and which could mean a very hefty pay...
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