Northwood Parish Council Elections
Posted by Roger Mazillius on Saturday, 13th February 2010, 17:28
The entire Parish Council of eight places is up for election on 6th May 2010. However if the General Election does take place on this day, they will be postponed for about three weeks.
There will I suspect be several present Parish Councillors (including myself) who will not be standing again. Apart from this of course all EIGHT places will need candidates.
So the purpose of this posting is to sincerely say to all you keen “posting villagers” out there to seriously consider standing for election to the Parish Council.
It is after all YOUR Council and you will recall that NONE of the original eight Councillors were ACTUALLY ELECTED because there were only seven nominations. So we had to co-opt one other to make up the number.
I only stood myself in case we did not get enough nominations. If we had got nine or more, I would have stood down in the five day window allowing me to do this before election arrangements were finalised because I wanted to see fresh faces inputting into this local level of democracy.
Even if you don’t want to stand, you can give your practical support to village life, e.g. help with the plant tubs weeding and watering, help with our litter-picking Saturday mornings and a whole host of other parish activities (I won’t list them all as I don’t want to put anyone off!)
All you need to stand is to complete a couple of simple forms and two signatures of local residents. For further information about this and for the forms you can email clive.joynes@iow.gov.uk
Clive is the I.W. Council’s highly regarded elections specialist. Get in early before he gets really busy with General Election work.
Best wishes, Roger Mazillius
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- - Cowes Radar Ex-Employees Association
- - Cowes-Deauville Twinning Association
- - Friends of Northwood Cemetery
- - Friends of Northwood House and Park
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- - Northwood Floral Art Group
- - Northwood Village Produce Association
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Parish Council
The Parish Council nomination papers are now available from Electoral Services at County Hall. The Officer concerned is Clive Joynes (email clive.joynes@iow.gov.uk)- telephone is 01983 823341.
Completed papers should be returned to Clive after 29th March and no later than Thursday 8th April. They are the most simple papers to complete and Clive can assist in that regard or please ask me if anything is unclear.
If, as seems very likely, the General Election takes place on Parish Polling Day, i.e. 6th May, then the Parish Elections will be postponed until Thursday 27th May. However, the deadlines given above will still apply, i.e. papers must be in no later than 8th April.
Just to recap, there are eight places up for election, that is the entire Parish Council and if elected, you will be expected to serve for the term of four years before the next elections in May 2014.
This is a marvellous opportunity for committed local residents to “have a go” and offer themselves and their hopes and aspirations for Northwood to the wider public to show what a difference they could make to improve local facilities etc.
In turn you will be able to support my work as local I.W. Councillor and to hold me to account specifically on local issues as occasion demands. An interesting challenge I hope!
Good luck to all!
Best wishes
Roger Mazillius
PS Present Chairman, John Pullen of 86 Wyatts Lane – tel: 01983 281250 may have one or two spare sets of papers available now.
The more the merrier!
Have just had notice that if there is a General Election on 6th. May, the Parish Elections will be held three weeks later on Thursday 27th May.
Cheers, Roger M.
Thanks Rog. It would be nice to see some new faces. Might have a go myself!
Villager