Tuesday 8 July 2014

Busy, busy, busy!

When I look at my diary June seems to be chocker full of meetings and appointments, although quite a few got cancelled for various reasons.  But I was certainly kept busy!

I went to a very interesting & lively meeting open to members of the public, looking at environmental issues.  All the usual suspects cropped up, problems with traffic, parking, rubbish, pot holes etc etc.  So now the trick is to take all these comments, feed them into the next Streetscene scrutiny inquiry panel meeting, and see if we can come up with some clever ideas to try & solve them, but without them costing too much money!  (I have now joined this panel - somehow it passed me by when it was first set up last year!)

Had another useful informal meeting (helped by the surroundings and liquid refreshment provided by the Queens!) of the Swansea Bay Fair Credit group.  We had a good discussion on  ideas for future action.  Here the trick is to keep the momentum going so we are always looking for fresh ways to highlight the issues of sky high interest rates versus affordable credit.  But with the support of Movement for Change we seem to keep coming up with the goods.


 

And my final council related meeting of the month - at Sea View school, also my last as a governor.  Over the past few months I have been finding it difficult to fit in the many events and other commitments that this role requires, and I don't like doing only half a job.  But by resigning I can still be a 'friend' of the school, being involved when I can, and someone else who hopefully has more time can take my place.  Win-win situation I think.

Bizarre moment of the Month - going up to TOPIC House for a PACT meeting, when there wasn't one!

Les