24 January 2009
21:5613764#61
Those who live in glass houses Mr matcham, those who live in glass houses.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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24 January 2009
22:0313766#62
Thank you for that mandie, and yes i know what is coming up soon, and I do not mind that, and please thank your girls for coming in the sea with me on boxing day they done very well, also hope you got lots of funding.
vic M
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25 January 2009
01:0413775#63
MONEY HAD, ROGER also ben put aside other than the 106 planning agreement.
so where did the other money go??
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2009
01:2313776#64
Easy answer, a quick freedom of information request......
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2009
10:0113784#65
It has nothing to do with 106 or any other number you can pull out of a hat, please just tell where the funding is, or was, and if it has gone , where did it go?and why? it was put there for again I SAY IT FOKESTONE RD and that use only who change the goal post.s.
Vic matcham
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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25 January 2009
10:0913787#66
Easy answer Freedom of information or a question at Full Council.On the forums you get posters debating this that and another but in all my years on the council I can count on one hand the number of times someone has asked a Question at Full Council
Perhaps its easier to sit at a computer than to attend a meeting.Councillors who post give you answers and indeed Cllr Watkins posts on here .He has also invited people to meet with him ,but its so much easier is it not on a cold wet morning to type out postings..
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25 January 2009
10:4613792#67
Sue, point taken but most of us are at work and we work in the rain and the cold.
Vic M
25 January 2009
11:1013794#68
Sue - you do yourself no favours.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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25 January 2009
11:4413797#69
Vic and Bern,if an issuie is so important I have pointed out the way to go .Not all councillors read the forums and hardly any officers.If an issuie is of importance that is the most direct way to go .Ido appreciate people wiork and so do many councillors Im an exception .On Wednesday im off to London early morning then up to a Full Council meeting .I will not have time to go home
I dont court favours Bern .I will always tell it as it is .You want action do sometghing about it ..
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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25 January 2009
11:4913799#70
When River Rec was about to be sold off we formed an action group .Many people wrote into to the council I think I have 100 copies somewhere in my loft .We made placards ,people went to the council offices .I and my former collegue raised the issuie at every optune moment even if it wasnt on the agenda .River rec was not sold and is now run by the Parish Council .My collegue died not long after I dont think the stress helped .
I dont see peole from Clarendon forming an action group??
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25 January 2009
11:5113800#71
If the lowly peasants dont go to the councils then the councillors should come to the peasants.ie. more of them should communicate with the Forum.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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25 January 2009
11:5913802#72
Quite Right Paul .At least Paul comes on here from time to time .
I can take the flack and i really do have a sense of Humour .
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 January 2009
12:1513804#73
I've answered the various questions as honestly and fully as I can.
Roger
25 January 2009
13:3713813#74
I am sure I have refected before about a meeting I attended - a long time ago, admittedly, but I work long hours and attending meetings at the local council is not always an option for me which is why I appreciate alternative forums and methods of communication and become a little annoyed when they are dismissed as not challenging enough to prove my committment! - and the meeting was a shambles, councillors were hyper-defensive, and us proles were belittled if we did not understand the "protocols" that had to be followed in the incredibly important council meetings and just wanted to talk, courteously and in an adult manner.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2009
13:3813816#75
when i was a town cllr for folkestone rd we did have more than one meeting with the D,D,.C but nothing come of it,now i can not do that.
Vic matcham
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25 January 2009
16:5013843#76
Actually you can Vic. Paul Watkins will happily make appointments to see anyone with concerns (you might not always like or agree with the answers but he is prepared to give his time and opinions), you can write to the councils and ask for your question to be raised at full council meetings (you have to write directly to them and not just hope they will read postings on the forums) and/or you can attend the council meetings.
Look at me defending DDC, I think I will go and lie down in a darkened room for a while.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 January 2009
16:5613844#77
i have had some very good meetings on aone to one with mr watkins but I am not a cllr anymore and have no say with folkestone rd anymore so it must be down to the cllrs who are up there now
i have been told off before about that .
Vic M
25 January 2009
19:0713852#78
I am not a councillor and I don't live in the Folkestone Road - may I not comment on Folkestone Road?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 January 2009
19:2113855#79
Of course you can Bern.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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25 January 2009
20:1913863#80
susan
two points here, the real issues at council are discussed in secret at cabinet level.
secondly, i can assure you that a great number of council officers read this and other forums.