BREAKING NEWS…
There were scenes of panic at the Hayloft Road Palace Retirement Home for Bemused and Bewildered BeFuddled Party ex-Teachers (and Others) as Smalltown and Dullbridge Town Council staff tried to upload the agenda for tomorrow’s White Elephant Enclosure Mismanagement Committee meeting, after SomersetClive highlighted the issue. The agenda finally appeared online at 10.00am this morning – far outside the statutory minimum ‘3 clear days notice’ as required by the Local Government Act.
This short time scale meant that residents had exactly two hours to register their interest if they wanted to address councillors at the meeting, as requests have to be logged and approved by the Smalltown Administration Guru (SAG).
Interestingly, the report from the Top Secret Consultants, employed by the Top Secret Human Resources Committee, on a Top Secret basis for a Top Secret fee, which promises to answer the question ‘What is a White Elephant Enclosure?’ is not included as an item on the agenda – as Deputy Dictator Cllr Eugenie Sherry had previously promised at the last SaD TC Full Council meeting. We can only assume that the contents are Top Secret.
Instead Councillors are expected to approve a further almost £1K of expenditure on walkie-talkies and a smoke machine – assumedly so that they can conduct future meetings behind a dense smoke screen, using the walkie-talkies to communicate with each other.