Tag Archives: Community Council elections

new LCCC members

Following their nomination for Leith Central Community Council, the Returning Officer, Cllr Angela Blacklock, has declared the following candidates elected to Leith Central Community Council. According to the current Scheme for Community Councils, it was not necessary to hold a contested election, as there have been fewer candidates than available places.

  • Jeremy Darot
  • Roberto Colasuonno
  • Stanley Eadie
  • Lorraine Moore
  • Michael Pisanek
  • Katherine Chisholm

Following this interim election process, brought about by a number of resignations and one sad death, Leith Central Community Council is now once again fully quorate with a voting membership of 14. This is expected to rise to 15, once the paperwork for one of the local interest groups that provide a ‘nominated representative’ has been completed.

Election Fever! Your community council needs you

Leith Central Community Council needs new members! There are vacancies for 9 elected members. If you are interested in becoming a Leith Central community councillor, you can nominate yourself using the Nomination form for Elected Member. Community groups active in Leith Central CC’s area can nominate representatives using Leith Central Nomination Form – Local Interest Group.

Leith Central CC is a friendly, welcoming group of volunteers committed to working to improve the area and represent its citizens.

Nominees must be over 16 years of age and on the electoral roll. The deadline for nominations is 4pm Monday 1 February 2016. If there are more candidates than places on the community council, an election will be held in that area on Thursday 25 February 2016.

Nominations should be sent to

Councillor Angela Blacklock
Returning Officer
The City of Edinburgh Council
City Chambers, High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1YJ
0131 529 3286
angela.blacklock@edinburgh.gov.uk

For more information, please see the Neighbourhood Partnership website or Edinburgh Council’s website.

 

Fairer Scotland – the CC event

On Wednesday 16 September, around 80 community council members met in Glasgow to talk about how CCs could contribute to the Scottish Government’s Fairer Scotland initiative. The following are personal accounts and comments on this event from Leith Central CC’s web weaver (Bruce Ryan).

They do not represent Leith Central CC’s position on any matter but are reproduced here simply to inform readers about actions the SG and the Improvement Service are undertaking to help CCs live up to their roles (and to provide some constructive criticism of these actions).

Continue reading →

Citizen Participation Network newsletter

Some great things in the latest CPN newsletter. Here’s the headlines:

The Citizen Participation Network (CPN) was set up in 2010 by Edinburgh University’s Public Policy Network. In four years, CPN has grown from 5 to 500 members including citizens, researchers, policy makers and participation practitioners. It aims to connect research, policy and practice in the worlds of collaborative governance and participatory and deliberative democracy in Scotland and beyond.

Mass resignation of Old Town Community Council

It’s saddening to learn of this.

From the news release:

Having become so exasperated with the disregard shown by the City of Edinburgh Council towards the local community, and the lack of support and encouragement for community councils in general, the majority of OTCC members have now taken this decision to resign. Due to community disaffection and lack of promotion by the Council for community council elections, without so much as a mention on the Council’s homepage, only one new member was recently co-opted onto the OTCC, constituting an insufficient number in order to sustain the OTCC.

Here is the full text of this news release and the accompanying Caltongate final appeal document.