With the unanimous adoption of a new Members Allowance Scheme last October came a requirement for each councillor to submit a 200 word annual report for publication on the official website by the time of the Council's annual meeting.The annual meeting took place last Wednesday and a quick check on the official websites of each councillor shows that 20 of the 48 do not appear to have bothered to meet this simple requirement, despite two reminders in the previous weeks.
Included in this 20 are the Leader of the Council (pictured) - who benefited most from the new allowances scheme - one of the new Cabinet members who actually proposed the new allowances scheme last October when a Cabinet Secretary, the Cabinet member for 'The Customer', the chair of Planning Committee, and two of the four Policy Commissioners. Additionally not one of the 3 Ryde Liberals has bothered, nor two of the Independent Group. Guess which group met the requirement 100% !
Go to http://www.iwight.com/councillor/andysutton/
and then click on the Annual Report link......
UPDATE 25.4.07 - The Council leader and new Cabinet member are now compliant, but not the others.
UPDATE 14.5.07 - The other 18 are STILL not compliant.
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