Pen-y-Ffordd Community Council
The minutes of the proceedings of a special meeting of the Pen-y-Ffordd Community Council held in The War Memorial Institute on Wednesday the 26th October 2011
PRESENT
Cllr D Williams, Chairman of the Council (in the chair)
Cllr T W Jones OBE, Vice Chairman
Cllrs J W Bell, C Bithell, Mrs E M Davies, Mrs C Hinds, Mrs M D Jones, Mrs L Vidamour
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Were received from Cllrs S E Davies, Mrs J Hopwood
IN ATTENDANCE
G N I Jones, Clerk to the Council
APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
The clerk advised that the budget allocation is an amount of £3,200.00.
The list of applications numbered twenty-eight in total; there were three national organisations, Shelter Cymru, N S P C C and Age Concern North East Wales.
Three other organisations were Pontblyddyn Cricket Club, Flintshire Diabetes Voluntary Group and Nightingale House Hospice.
Members agreed to discard the national organisations, also the Flintshire Diabetes Voluntary Group. (Excepting Nightingale Hospice.)
With regards to Pontblyddyn Cricket Club quite a number of young people receive coaching at the club, they also play for the junior teams, and coaches from the Cricket Club coach in the three schools in the villages: it was agreed to include this application. ( Our clerk is also a member )
Members considered to more favourably consider applications from organisations with a youthful flavour. ( excepting those certain Penyffordd Cllrs were members of )
The youthful flavour was put forward by Cllr Tom Jones. No one put forward the position that it is the older social groups who are shrinking out of existence. No one challenged Cllr Tom Jones who used this as a way of getting at the Wine Circle.
2. First Pen-y-ffordd Brownies - £200.00
3. Pen-y-ffordd Scout Group - £150.00
4. Pen-y-ffordd Beavers £150.00
5. Pen-y-ffordd Cub Pack - £150.00
6 Pen-y-ffordd Flower Club - £125.00
7. Pen-y-ffordd Youth Club - £200.00
8. War Memorial Bonfire Appeal - £200.00
9. Pen-y-ffordd Tennis Club - £200.00
10. Pen-y-ffordd Play Group - £200.00
11. Emanuel Church - £125.00
12 Pen-y-ffordd Wine Society - £25.00
Note: The Vice Chairman, Cllr T W Jones, and Cllr C Bithell wished it to be recorded in the minutes that they had voted for this organisation to be excluded.
13. Red Lion Cricket Club - £125.00
14. Pen-y-ffordd Senior Football Club - £125.00
15. St John's the Baptist Church Pentrobin - £125.00
16. Trinity Chapel - £125.00
17. Pen-y-ffordd Junior Football Club - £200.00
18. Pen-y-ffordd and Penymynydd Toddlers Group - £200.00
19. Pen-y-ffordd Area Community Association - £200.00
20. Red Lion Strollers FC - £125.00
21. Pontblyddyn Cricket Club - £125.00
22. Nightingale House Hospice - £100.00.
End of minutes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Why are they shabby? Because of the vindictiveness shown to Penyffordd Wine Circle which has been a social element of Penyffordd for over 20 years. It is not a drinking club. If drink was a factor then many of those on the list should have been excluded.
Cllr David Williams as Chairman should have challenged Cllr Jones and Bithell on why they wanted Penyffordd Wine Circle excluded.
Nigel as clerk should have also raised the unfairness of this decision.
Nigel as Village Clerk should hold a neutral position and advise councillors of unfairness. Ask them to explain themselves.
Why should councillors vote for their own groups? ie. Cllr David Williams and the Red Lion Strollers.
The whole system is corrupt. Cllrs Tom Jones and Colin Bithell show themselves to have no idea of fairness. They have used their positions to stick the boot in.
With such prejudice should they be allowed to be councillors. Klaus has nothing on these two nasty pieces of work.
I've asked Nigel what comments were made when Cllrs Jones and Bithell advised for Penyffordd Wine Circle removal from the grant list.
No councillor made any comment. Why were their actions not challenged?
Where was the normal voluble Cllr Edwina Davies a former Wine Circle member on this. - SILENT - Shame on you Edwina. The village needs better than you as a councillor !
All scared of an 80 year old man, quite pathetic !
Perhaps Tom Jones' Independents should be renamed the Penyffordd Mafia.
They have all the morality of such organisations.
