Shalfleet Parish Council votes unanimously at Extraordinary General Meeting to subsidise local buses

A surprise Extraordinary General Meeting was called last week, held on Tuesday 18th August 2015 to approve a motion from Cllr Pamela Myles that the Parish Council should subsidise local buses for children, to be paid for out of the precept (i.e. the cost is added to Council Tax payers' Council Tax).  The motion was approved 'unanimously' although Cllrs John McGuirk, Brenda Baxandall and Steve French had given apologies for absence. Audio recording of the meeting at the bottom of this page.

It was stated that Cllr Hewston had carried out a public consultation.  The Blog can find no such consultation on the Parish website or notice boards.  There were some boards shown at the Wellow Fête held on 8th August but there is no mention of bus services or subsidising them. In any case these boards did not have the appearance of being for serious consultation.

Parish Council Meeting full recording is on the embedded player below.  The section concerning the bus subsidy is for the first 20 minutes.