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10/05/24 - Attended another meeting with Persimmon regarding their failures within Avon Water Walk. This meeting was attended by 2 residents from the development, representatives from Persimmon, and MSP Christina McKelvie and staff. I have continually been collating snagging issues, some of which are horrendous, and have now emailed these to my contact within Persimmon.
14/05/24 - Meeting with other SNP Councillors to discuss ways in which SLC can provide a better service for each and every resident.
17/05/24 - Meeting of the Planning Local Review Board
29/05/24 - Rural Task Force meeting to discuss the challenges faced in rural South Lanarkshire.
30/05/24 - Further meeting with residents of Avon Water Walk, Stonehouse
Various dates - Meetings for the purposes of Educational Appeals.
JUNE
01/06/24 - Stonehouse Gala Day. Wow! What an absolutely amazing procession. Well done to everyone involved, the floats, the houses, the shops, all were fantastic. WELL DONE!
03/06/24 - Further Education Appeals
03/06/24 - Meeting of SLC SNP Group, discussing ways in which we councillors can best serve you.
06/06/24 - Attended Lanimers Day in Lanark. Such a privilege to be invited to such an outstanding event.
08/06/24 - Attended the Gala Day breakfast where I got to meet the court of the Strathaven Gala Day. Was a pleasure to sit with the Queen, her Champion and their families. Managed to get a good catch up with your other councillor for Ward 5, Susan Kerr. The procession was absolutely fantastic, my personal favourite was the 80’s themed Disco. Massive well done to everyone involved.
08/06/24 - Visited the Inaugural Stonehouse Market. A tremendous amount of work has went into ensuring this event took place and I look forward to seeing it flourish.
09/06/24 - Another day on the campaign trail. This time for Grant Costello, SNP candidate for East Kilbride & Strathaven. Some good responses on the doors of Stonehouse.
10/06/24 - Meeting of the full SNP Group ahead of the upcoming Full Council Meeting. As always we discussed ways in which we as SNP Councillors can help you.
10/06/24 - Met with the Avon Water Walk Owners Association. Provided support and advice on setting up a constituted group to work on behalf of every resident of Avon Water Walk
12/06/24 - Meeting of the Full Council. In an election period there have to be no motions of a political nature, that is why I was disappointed the ruling Labour/LibDem Group proposed a motion directly targeted at First Minister John Swinney. As per usual, this had backing from the Tories and the Independents. Why do I expect anything more?
13/06/24 & 14/06/24 - More education appeals.
14/06/24 - Held a Euro’s opening party at home. Disappointing result but it’s only the first game. Keep up the faith and I wish all our players the very best of luck.
20/06/24 - SNP Cabinet meeting discussing ways in which we can better serve you.
24/06/24 - PLRB meeting on MS Teams
25/06/24 - IJB Meeting
27/06/24 - On Holiday till 09/07/24
JULY
27/06/24 - 31/07/24 - Holiday from all organised council meetings. Still responded to all constituents emails and dealt with cases in the normal manner.
AUGUST
01/08/24 - SNP Group Cabinet Meeting where we discussed ways to protect the services our constituent deserve.
08/08/24 - Further SNP Group Cabinet Meeting discussing the cuts to school transport that had just passed.
13/08/24 - Attended protest to highlight school transport cuts, led by parents and children of Lesmahagow High. Safe walking route? Not a chance.
14/08/24 - Meeting of the Climate change group, questioned the chair on whether the cuts to school transport would impact the councils performance. No answer could be given.
15/08/24 - Meeting of Financial Resources Committe
15/08/24 - SNP Cabinet meeting to discuss latest events that impact all of you and how we can rectify those.
20/08/24 - Attended education resources committee. Hot topic being cut to school transport but no movement on that.
20/08/24 - Social Work meeting for update on this resource.
21/08/24 - SNP Spokesperson at Social Work Resources committee. Major issue taken from this is that SLC Carers will no longer need to be SVQ3 trained.
22/08/24 - Meeting with staff of MSP Christina McKelvie and representatives from Persimmon to discuss the ongoing, and lengthy issues at their Avon Water Walk development in Stonehouse.
27/08/24 - Attended planning meeting. Pleased to speak in favour of approving an application from McDonalds for a new restaurant in Larkhall - providing they look at changing the access to the site.
29/08/24 - SNP Cabinet Meeting discussing how to support all our constituents.