Monday night was the once a year council meeting that isn't really a council meeting - its for the council tax payers to ask questions and find out what the council does. In Newbury we have tied this into our Civic Award presentation for a number of years. In the past I have sat in the audience and been very moved hearing the citations of the nominees.
This year I stood at the front and congratulated them all as I handed out the certificates. - Fellow judges John Hampson and David Danielli also came to see the people we had all read about a few weeks ago, when attempting to sort out an overall winner! We had two runners up - I'm pictured here with Paul Harris of Mencap, and the other was Graham Smith who has been the driving force behind Newbury's new walking map. The overall winners were Ann and Les Summers - both stalwarts of the Alzheimers Association. Unfortunately they couldn't be at the award ceremony because they were away in Cornwall, but their nominator Chreanne Montgomery-Smith collected it on their behalf.
The annual town meeting then proceeded after refreshments - thanks to Graham's detailed powerpoint presentation, and the great displays around the chamber, this went very well - we had a pretty good turn out of people - though I did know almost all of them!
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