You can download the official notice by clicking or tapping here

Please would you stand for election to our Packington Parish Council?

PLEASE?  By This Friday 22nd June at 4 pm?

OR, please would you nominate a friend or neighbour?

You have until this Friday, 22nd June 2018, at 4pm, to deliver your nomination and consent forms to District Council at Coalville – and there’s FREE  parking outside the District Council Offices there, to help you.  That’s THIS COMING FRIDAY.  Yes, by 4 pm.

Packington Post has already published the forms pack for you – at https://packington.info/bloggle/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/02a-Nomination-Pack-Parish.pdf

All the other information you need is here, on this prior Packington Post page. It tells you what you need to be, to stand. It also tells you what you mustn’t be, to stand. Other really gripping stuff is there, too.  Meanwhile, the official Notice of Election is copied at the bottom of this page, and a photo of it is at right.

Please – print off those forms, NOW.

If you stand, get two neighbours to propose you and second you, and sign that you consent. If you nominate someone else, they just need to consent to being nominated and you can get a third person to second them.  At Coalville, the people in the legal services department at District Council are just SO HELPFUL – if you have any doubts about form-filling, they’ll advise you. They’re happy to look up your electoral number for you. They’ll talk over any queries you have – phone them in advance, on 01530 454503, ask for “Democratic Services”. Then, just DELIVER THOSE FORMS to them, BY FRIDAY. Yes, by 4pm on Friday. Yes, THIS FRIDAY. Yes, FREE PARKING for 30 minutes outside.

Please Stand. Help us have a strong, balanced Parish Council.

Please?

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Casual Vacancy – there is likely to be an election

In Packington Post out this week, there is a resignation statement from one of our 6 Parish Councillors, reproduced below.  This gives our village an opportunity to elect a new councillor to serve on our Parish Council.

Could this be YOU?

The 6-member council controls a tax-precept budget of £25,000, plus grants from a solar farm fund, and two village charities. Planning applications for the village are first scrutinised by the parish councillors. The council employs a clerk, meets once a month on the first Tuesday, and holds an Annual meeting.

YOU might fill the vacancy if 10 electors call for an election, before Thursday 7th June, which we understand to be likely.  If not, the parish council can co-opt an elector to serve with them, and that could be YOU as well, if you make your wish known.

It could be valuable for someone new to sit on our Parish Council, perhaps to bring a fresh viewpoint to this important body. How do YOU feel?

You can learn more about our Parish Council on their website (alas, old technology, expensive, too, but may not display well or at all on your phone). Below is the official notice of Vacancy.

Interested?  You can contact  Mrs Karen Edwards, Clerk to the Parish Council, as below:

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“..improving and upgrading the Recreation Ground.”

You are invited to attend a Meeting of Packington Parish Council to be held on Wednesday 9th May 2018 at 6.30pm at Packington Memorial Hall Venue 35, High Street, Packington.

AGENDA

Questions from members of the public – (10 minutes)

1. To receive Apologies for absence and to note acceptance by the Council

2. To note Declarations of Interest both Personal and Prejudicial on items within the agenda

3. To consider requests for dispensations

4. To agree expenditure of Section 106 monies, as recommended by the Recreation Ground Trustees, on improving and upgrading the Recreation Ground, Measham Road, Packington.

as at 2nd May 2018