Posts Tagged ‘Councillor Sue James’
Cornwall Council Cabinet announcement includes Councillor Sue James, for St Just-in-Penwith. Below are the members of the Cabinet and the summary of their portfolios, in full. They start being briefed and developing priorities for Cornwall on Monday 12th June. The membership of the Cabinet, which reflects the alliance between the Independent and Liberal Democrat GroupsRead More »
St Just Community Library plans get funding boost from local Cornwall Councillor, Sue James. The friends of St Just Library are delighted that councillor Sue James has chosen to allocate £1,500 from her Community Chest Fund this year to support the Friends of St Just Library in their plans to take over the day toRead More »
Cllr Sue James shares her hopes for 2015 rather than the traditional New Years resolutions or targets. Locally I want to see the Library Service come under more local control and the doors open more at the end of the year than they are now. I want to see Nancherrow Youth club finding a way toRead More »
Administration Since the last meeting the administration has continued to form with committees being established and starting to meet. I have attended the first West Area Planning meeting and one of 2 days of planning training. In terms of my role as local member, in calling applications in to committee, I would draw to thisRead More »
From the outside, it may seem that the process of forming an administration was long winded but when no group has overall control, or indeed, no group is significantly bigger than another there are sensitive discussions to take place. Indeed, the sizes of the groups have changed since the election result on 3 May withRead More »
As has been the case in previous years, each Cornwall Councillor has been allocated a budget that they can allocate to small community projects in their local area. Grants of between £100 and £1,000 can be given to help projects that benefit vulnerable young children and adults, facilities for older citizens and the youth ofRead More »
Since I last wrote I have continued to attend briefing/ training sessions and begun to attend the committees I have been allocated to. A further development is that I have been allocated to be one of Cornwall’s representatives on the Police and Crime Panel and have attended the first meeting. The issues that are broughtRead More »
I have now completed my first month as your Cornwall Councillor. My time has been dominated by attending training and meeting key officers and many frustrating hours getting to grips with the Council IT system. Although we all know what a broad range of issues a Council is responsible for, it is not until youRead More »
Firstly, a big thank you to all those who took the trouble to put a cross by my name for the Cornwall Council election! I realise that about 48% decided it was not worth the trouble of voting for anyone so my goal, over the next 4 years, is to make more of you feelRead More »