Surely all you Administration councillors reading this can see that there is something not quite right here? Put your prejudices against this forum aside, and ask yourself if these actions are what you were thinking about when you got involved in local politics? Is this how you thought you would make ER a better place to live and work in?

How desperate does Jim Sneddon appear to be to take a scalp.....

In the proposal to council he alludes to TCC proposing to discuss the issue at their next meeting.

He fails to inform the elected members that TCC have contacted Mr Sneddon on three occasions to say that it's on the agenda for the next CC meeting, and if that's not in order they are prepared to have a special meeting, but he has failed to reply.


The Macintosh Report on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament said this about Community Councils:

—Community Councils

158. Any discussion of this subject has to pay special attention to the institution of community councils, whose purpose specifically is to represent local communities. Community councils are unique. They are statutory, but they are not another tier of local government; they are not creatures of the council, as area forums or citizens' panels are; nor are they purely voluntary bodies, as residents' associations and tenants' associations are. A community can choose not to have a community council; but if a community council exists the council can neither dissolve it, as it could dissolve or reorganise its own forums and panels, nor may it choose to ignore it, as it might ignore a voluntary association.

WE are reminded what Vincent Waters said when he was the chair of the Association of Scottish Community Councils "Any attempt to disestablish a community council would result in an immediate challenge and a request for a judicial review"

What is Vincent Waters saying now, "Behaviour of handful a disgrace, needs confronted", is this consistent with his previous stance.

TCC are being targetted for one reason, the failure to co-opt the girlfriend of an ERC councillor. This has resulted in their Chair suddenly being found ineligible for membership due to the boundary suddenly to be 2.5m from his house, despite being fine for years (not forgetting years of voluntary service to the community, for absolutely no gain), and now these bully boy tactics being used against them.

Why didn't Lisa just put her name down at the elections? There were not enough nominees to warrant an actual election, so she'd would have been straight on.

The threat to dissolve the cc's is pointless by erc.

under the regulations that they must comply with where there is no cc then if 20 or more electors request the creation of a cc to the local authority then elections must be put in place.

if there are 3 cc's with at least 10 community councillors = 30 requests = 3 new cc's in given time.

result = waste of everyone's time and council tax payers money all because they want to take charge and neuter local communities.

How ironic is it that councillors Green Kane and Hay will all get vote on this when their wards cover nmcc but don't bother attend the monthly meetings. Given their lack of interest in nmcc should they not do the decent thing and abstain or support their wards community councillors. Or start to turn up once in a while.

BJ67 wrote:


BJ67 - you might think this, I couldn't possibly comment.
It is true that one of them has only attended 1.5 CC monthly meetings in Newton Mearns out of a possible 55.
Makes the salary an eye watering hourly rate if based on NMCC attendance which obviously is an unfair statistic to put forward.