Questions will be answered
Published Date:
21 August 2008
I WRITE further to Edith Lawrence's letter of Tuesday, July 15, about how questions from the public are answered at council meetings.
This reform, reported in the Gazette on Thursday, June 26, came out of a working party formed by all parties.
It allows the public to submit written questions to the council to be answered in written form.
Copies of questions and answers will be placed in libraries and also on the internet.
This proposal was agreed unanimously, without dissent, by all members.
Four of the nine independent group members were absent from this meeting, including Couns George Waddle and Steve Harrison, whom your correspondent has praised in earlier letters.
So concerned was Coun Harrison about this issue that he decided to be in London to collect an award.
This award confirmed South Tyneside as the best council in the UK.
QED.
Coun John McCabe,
Jarrow.
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21 August 2008 12:40 PM
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