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Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. We start by wishing exam students all the best. You may not realise that things like Art practicals have already begun, and written GCSE and A Level exams start very soon: my Year 11 Computer Science students sit their first paper on May 12th. We did not blog last week because of Easter. The main meeting in the week before Easter was Full Selsey Town Council but Donna and I had other meetings that week too. In fact we spent half my school holiday on casework and being in meetings. One of the other things that occupied us was the plight of the fish in East Beach pond on Selsey. It is a key part of Selsey's flood defences and only gained fish when unknown people added them. The run of dry weather caused problems with the water level and some fish died. There was news on Tuesday afternoon as Donna posted: -  “ Hi all, I have been in communication with CDC and they visited the pond late this morning. The consequence is ...

Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. On Sunday, Gareth presented the Local Alliance trophy at this month's Selsey Scooter Club meeting, while on Tuesday Val, Donna and I had Full Chichester District Council which included a successful motion I put forward, seconded by Donna, asking the Leader to write to: - The Local Government Association to ask them to make urgent representations to central government to fully fund a fairly negotiated NJC pay award that helps local government staff catch up from previous years of low settlements and ask our MPs to lend their support. The Chancellor and Secretary of State to call for a pay increase for local government workers to be fully funded with new money from central government.  I pointed out that much of the work is white collar in nature, so the low pay settlements since 2010 have disproportionately affected women. As the UK tax burden is over 36% an increase would not be as costly as it might seem and most o...

Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read. This week Donna had the Harbour Conservancy on Monday while Mick, Val and Ali had a stakeholders briefing from Coastal Partners ahead of the upcoming sea defence events in the Selsey Centre (24th - 10 - 2pm, 25th - 2 - 7pm and 26th - 10 - 2pm.) On Wednesday Donna and Val had Chichester District Council’s Planning Committee, while on Thursday Ian and I had our fortnightly Management Meeting with Selsey Town Council’s Senior Officers. This coming Tuesday, Steve, Val, Donna and I have Full Chichester District Council which includes a motion I have put forward, after representations, about Local Government pay. I also have my fortnightly one to one with Selsey’s Town Clerk and at some point Steve, Val, Donna and I are having an on site seafront briefing with Officers from Chichester District Council. You can watch council meetings live: CDC and WSCC .  We recently reported that the Manor Green project was discussed a...