Fiona White

Liberal Democrat Councillor for Guildford West Learn more

Hello everyone

by fionawhite on 11 May, 2012

As this is a new website, I thought I would start with an update of my week so far.

Tuesday was full council meeting at Surrey County Council.  As it was the AGM, nothing very interesting happened but council meetings are rarely very exciting anyway.

I am part of a panel at Surrey to help the council leader spend money on community improvements and we met on Wednesday afternoon.  There is a pot of money of £850000 and communities can bid for anything between £10,000 and £50,000.  We have had 85 bids in amounting to requests for well over £2million, which means we are faced with a bit problem.  We’ve had a couple of preparatory meetings and on Wednesday we made our final decision on which to put forward.  The final decision will be with the council leader who can ignore what we have said if he wants to.

Thursday was quite hectic.  A meeting at Surrey Police HQ was followed by a member reference group at Surrey to discuss how to make our local committee processes more user friendly.  In my role as vice chairman of governors at Kings College Guildford, I was at an evening meeting to do with secondary education.

This morning I was in Kings College by 8am for a meeting with the chairman of governors and the two acting principals.

I hope in future to put in a bit more detail as things happen.

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