Video of Shalfleet Parish Annual Meeting 6-5-15 now online!

Please find below the video of Wednesday's Parish Annual Meeting split into two sections for your inconvenience (it needed two video tapes).

There were some interesting views expressed.  I was intrigued by one councillor's opinion that we shouldn't give Bibles to the children at the C of E Shalfleet Primary School on leaving since they come from Christian families and they will already have one at home.  I was wondering about this since the meeting.  Might we take this argument a little further?  If the families are really good Christians then surely they know the Bible so they won't have one at home?  Who needs a copy of a book you've already read and your grandparents have on the bookshelf?  Better still, online.  I almost never read my hard-copy Bible now, much easier online.  Or perhaps what our little Christians need is a copy of the Koran to better appreciate other religions?  Unabridged copies in Arabic? Or the Beano? Or the latest version of Trivial Pursuit?

Personally I can't see why the Parish Council is giving anything to the school children on leaving.  Many of the Parishioners I know drive less opulent motors than those I see on the school run so why can't their devout mummies and daddies give Bibles to their offspring?  At a recent Parish Council meeting where the children were invited a show of hands revealed that almost all the tots come from Totland, two parishes distant, with only one or two tots from Shalfleet! So why are the Parishioners of Shalfleet paying £300, around 1% of their entire precept, for Bibles for Totland totties?

Below are the two video sections for your entertainment.  May I wish you a Happy New Government and the prospect of the local Council Elections looming over the next hill!  You can rest assured that normal taxation services will continue as usual; who ever heard of Government with Taxation?

Shalfleet Parish Annual Meeting 7.15pm tonight at the Wellow Institute

Sorry for such little notice, folks.  Sally sent out the details a while back but I overlooked it due to the General Election stuff going on.   This is an IMPORTANT meeting tonight.  We have had a Parish Election this year which I personally think has made a huge improvement on the Parish Council.  Our Parish Councillors do a heck of a lot of work UNPAID year round and sadly few people bother to turn up to council meetings or get involved unless they have some burning issue of their own.   We are a tiny parish and the Parish Council is our way to affect what happens to us locally.

Do please try to get to the meeting tonight at 7.15pm at the Wellow Institute.  I videod the Annual Parish Meeting a couple of weeks ago but am struggling with the audio.  It became a very intimate 'chat' kind of meeting with Cllr Stuart Hutchinson giving a very interesting explanation about what's going on with the Isle of Wight Council -- which was terrific, very relaxed, informal and useful -- but people let their voices drop so low it is hard to listen to.  I've put it onto YouTube (below at the bottom) but can you please SPEAK UP a bit tonight!  I record them so folk who can't make the meetings can watch at home.  I don't charge for it and it is my pleasure to do that for them.  Can you please speak up so they can hear you?  Thank you.

Annual-meeting-2015-Website-Agenda.pdf by david5174

Corf Scout Camp Shalfleet -- Saturday 16th May 2015