Posted by: allabouteve on: November 27, 2007
A hectic couple of weeks – starting with the first national fire service conference in Crieff and one of the most telling contributions in one of the plenary sessions was from a councillor who was very anxious about fulfilling his responsibilities as convenor of the regional fire board when he’d just got elected. When journalists [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 27, 2007
So why did I move an adjournment of the special council meeting on the 15th November that the SNP group had called to conclude the debating of the motions that hadn’t been heard at the last council meeting ? Simple – if the Labour administration in the council had shown no signs of being prepared [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 15, 2007
Attended Thornwood community council with fireworks going off as a background to their meeting on Bonfire night, which made an interesting counterpoint to my report and that of the local police. The main piece of work I’ve been involved in this week was finalising our radical plan to create the most devolved and community centred area committees [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 10, 2007
Words can’t describe the atmosphere in the Kelvin Hall – over 1000 schoolchildren waiting to hear the announcement on whether Glasgow’s bid to host the Commonwealth Games was a winner. I didn’t realise how keyed up I was until I got there and heard the screams and felt the energy of the young people who [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 6, 2007
Started the week with an induction session for new Strathclyde Fire and Rescue board members, which kicked off a week that was quite intensive and dominated by council meetings ( as opposed to ward related meetings ) – which made me think about the amount of time we have to spend on issues and in meetings that [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: November 1, 2007
On the day that the link between diet and cancer was the lead story on many news bulletins and newspapers, I found it strangely appropriate to be attending a fundraising event for Tak Tent – the cancer support charity. http://www.taktent.org/ One of the speakers made the valid point that every family will be affected by this illness/issue [...]
