{"id":1246,"date":"2023-04-24T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2023-04-24T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T08:30:44","slug":"parish-council-elections-important-message-to-all-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/parish-council-elections-important-message-to-all-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Council Elections &#8211; Important message to all residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL<br>RESIDENTS OF DUNCTON VILLAGE<br>Please take a minute to read this message.<br>As you may be aware as well as the Council elections on 4th May the Parish Council were also up for<br>re-election. Unfortunately, only person stood for election, resulting in a Parish Council that is unable<br>to perform its functions as we lack the minimum number of Councillors required to hold a meeting<br>and conduct business.<br>This means that the Parish Council can\u2019t undertake its usual work (in recent times this has included<br>work such as the Jubilee Orchard, annual events such as the village Fireworks etc.). It also means<br>that we will have no say in relation to Council decisions which affect the village such as those relating<br>to roads (including speed limits), planning etc.<br>Please consider whether you would be willing to join the Parish Council \u2013 we meet 6-7 times per year<br>in the evening and outside of meetings the amount of time taken is really dependent on how much<br>you and the Parish Council decide to get involved in (it is entirely a voluntary activity).<br>I would be happy to discuss with anyone who wants further information what is involved<br>(andrew@duncton.org or 01798 344 577). If you are willing to join the Parish Council please contact<br>either myself or the Clerk (Hannah-Louise O&#8217;Callaghan at clerk.duncton.org or 01798 865 189) for<br>further information as to what is required.<br>Please consider whether this is something that you could take part in!<br>Thank you for taking the time to read and consider this.<br>Regards,<br>Andrew Mills<br>IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL<br>RESIDENTS OF DUNCTON VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALLRESIDENTS OF DUNCTON VILLAGEPlease take a minute to read this message.As you may be aware as well as the Council elections on 4th May the Parish Council were also up forre-election. Unfortunately, only person stood for election, resulting in a Parish Council that is unableto perform its functions as we lack the minimum number of Councillors required to hold a meetingand conduct business.This means that the Parish Council can\u2019t undertake its usual work (in recent times this has includedwork such as the Jubilee Orchard, annual events such as the village Fireworks etc.). It also meansthat we will have no say in relation to Council decisions which affect the village such as those relatingto roads (including speed limits), planning etc.Please consider whether you would be willing to join the Parish Council \u2013 we meet 6-7 times per yearin the evening and outside of meetings the amount of time taken is really dependent on how muchyou and the Parish Council decide to get involved in (it is entirely a voluntary activity).I would be happy to discuss with anyone who wants further information what is involved(andrew@duncton.org or 01798 344 577). If you are willing to join the Parish Council please contacteither myself or the Clerk (Hannah-Louise O&#8217;Callaghan at clerk.duncton.org or 01798 865 189) forfurther information as to what is required.Please consider whether this is something that you could take part in!Thank you for taking the time to read and consider this.Regards,Andrew MillsIMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALLRESIDENTS OF DUNCTON VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncton.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}