Boy, did I need that break over Christmas!
Anyone else who runs their own business will know just how disciplined you must be to take time off. For once I managed to pencil in two weeks when the office was closed which meant I could try and clear the decks a bit, both work and council, and have a few days off.
Back to the grindstone on the 7th, with council work kicking off proper at Tuesday evening’s PACT meeting. (These meetings are the ideal place to raise a community issue, with amongst others both councillors & community police present, but unfortunately they aren’t well attended. Still trying to come up with a good ‘out of the box’ idea to get them to be ‘used’ more so any suggestions most welcome.) A couple more meetings (plus casework) during the rest of the week but thankfully not too hectic a start for me.
Without taking on too much more I have booked myself on some of the governor training courses, and in this past week I’ve been to one on Finance & Budgets. As it happens I got there about half way through as it overlapped with Equalities. I think somebody must have been looking after me as I decided to stay at the meeting. And when I got to the training they had almost finished going through a long spreadsheet looking at funding, line by line. Now as an ex trainer even I concede that there’s not much you can do to make these exciting! Fortunately the second hour was more general, and proactive, and what with the notes handed out I feel it was worthwhile going.
Last meeting for me this week was full council last night – shortest on record surely, finishing in well under an hour. Home by 6pm which was just as well as spent the next couple of hours wading through and actioning e-mails. After all that a can of lager never tasted so good!
Anyone else who runs their own business will know just how disciplined you must be to take time off. For once I managed to pencil in two weeks when the office was closed which meant I could try and clear the decks a bit, both work and council, and have a few days off.
Back to the grindstone on the 7th, with council work kicking off proper at Tuesday evening’s PACT meeting. (These meetings are the ideal place to raise a community issue, with amongst others both councillors & community police present, but unfortunately they aren’t well attended. Still trying to come up with a good ‘out of the box’ idea to get them to be ‘used’ more so any suggestions most welcome.) A couple more meetings (plus casework) during the rest of the week but thankfully not too hectic a start for me.
Without taking on too much more I have booked myself on some of the governor training courses, and in this past week I’ve been to one on Finance & Budgets. As it happens I got there about half way through as it overlapped with Equalities. I think somebody must have been looking after me as I decided to stay at the meeting. And when I got to the training they had almost finished going through a long spreadsheet looking at funding, line by line. Now as an ex trainer even I concede that there’s not much you can do to make these exciting! Fortunately the second hour was more general, and proactive, and what with the notes handed out I feel it was worthwhile going.
Last meeting for me this week was full council last night – shortest on record surely, finishing in well under an hour. Home by 6pm which was just as well as spent the next couple of hours wading through and actioning e-mails. After all that a can of lager never tasted so good!
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