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Somerset County Council elections postponed due to local government shake-up
Labour and the Liberal Democrats in Somerset have spoken out against the Government’s decision this week to postpone May’s planned Somerset County Council Elections.
The elections were due to take place on May 6th, but are being delayed because of the controversial local government reorganisation, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick announced on Monday.
Mr Jenrick has launched a consultation on whether a single county authority or two councils split on an east/west basis should replace the current two-tier system of local authorities in Somerset, as reported here.
Elections for all the county council’s seats will now be rescheduled because of the possibility that the authority will soon cease to exist, the Minister said in a written statement.
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A ‘homelessness authority’ was supposed to get Seattle and its suburbs on the same page; after a slow year, they may be further apart By Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times
Published: January 10, 2021, 6:00am
Share: Harold Odom, a co-chair of the regional homelessness authority s implementation board, has been doing his work for the county from a tiny house in Georgetown. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times/TNS)
SEATTLE King County Executive Dow Constantine has been thinking a lot this past year about his first exposure to politics as a child: the Paris peace talks at the end of the Vietnam War.
Famously, before the talks could even start, they were held up by a disagreement about the shape of the table the North and South Vietnamese leaders would sit around.
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Galway Bay FM
18 December 2020
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – A report by the Independent watchdog of local government has found that Galway City and County Council’s had a “mixed” performance during 2019.
The annual report by the National Oversight and Audit Commission assessed both local authorities across eleven areas.
Key indicators used to assess performance included housing, finance, and environment.
In terms of housing, Galway City Council owned 2,409 social housing dwellings to the end of 2019, with a vacancy rate of 2.2 percent.
While the County Council had 2,506 social homes, of which 6.3 percent were vacant.
The average time for re-housing in the city was 46 weeks, while in the county, it was almost a full year at 51 weeks.