Penyffordd Community Council Meeting January 2009

The Prologue

1. Cllr Cindy Hinds was away when the December 2008 meeting took place.
2. Before going away Cllr Cindy Hinds had secured an agreement with Cllr David Williams over the selection of governors in schools attended by Penyffordd district children.
3. Clerk to the Penyffordd Community Council GNI Jones had visited me to discuss my request for digital copies of Penyffordd Community Council minutes.

4. The Penyffordd Community Council agenda posted in the cabinet at the Penyffordd Post Office showed up to Item 5. The rest was obscured from view. Lisa had to get Mary to open cabinet to photocopy the agenda which had 14 items.

5. Missing from the agenda but showing on councillors agenda were item 15 which was to ask members of the public and press to leave.
6. Item 16 ( also missing) about me ( Colin Hughes) was then to be discussed in private.
7. Prior to this meeting Clr Cindy Hinds had raised with Flintshire County Council Monitoring Officer Barry Davies the legality of having a Penyffordd Community Council secret meeting to discuss me a resident because of my blog content and letters to The Evening Leader.

I personally have the idea that Cllr Colin Bithell wants me prosecuted for libel. An action he seems unwilling to do on a personal basis. In the old days the likes of Robert Maxwell would issue legal proceedings in an attempt to stop media stories.

8. In a rare email 2 days before the meeting Cllr David Williams accuses me of being a Labour Activist.

9. Dennis "Red Den" Parry rings me up on the morning of the meeting to say he is going to attend the meeting as he feels Item 16 is illegal. I tell Dennis that I will attend too. The plan is for us two to stay seated ( Lisa to leave) when members of the public are asked to leave before discussing Item 16. It would them have been up to Penyffordd Community Council to end the meeting without discussing Item 16 or to call North Wales Police to remove us from the building.
This would raise the stakes and make us more visible than Klaus.

to be continued....