Here’s a quick summary of news, events and casework for March 2004
31st - 400 parents from the Elliott Durham family of schools attend a dance event performed by the pupils;
31st-LGIU conferenceon the future of the Council Tax; working for reform of council tax bands and return on the business rates to local control; Local Income Tax is much more problematic;
30th - Elliott Durham School Council have launched their own web-site;
30th - Plans to introduce a 'residents only' parking permit scheme for the Querneby Road and Blyth Street neighbourhood are dropped after public consultation; some residents wanted an evening scheme which is difficult to enforce and many residents complained that there were insufficient parking spaces;
27th – Future of Regional broadcasting debated in Parliament; Carlton having announced plans to close the Lenton Lane studios;
27th – Cllr. Mo Munir meets residents to discuss concerns over a new mobile phone antenna proposed by O2 for Porchester Road at Porchester Car Centre;
26th – officers from the local authorities of Vienna, Den Haag, Leipzig, Tampere, Malmo and Newcastle-upon-Tyne report back on a week's inspection of Nottingham City Council, regarding our progress on Sustainable Development; (part of the PRESUD project);
22nd – tour of Pearmain Drive and Warton Avenue estate;
21st – report 4 cases caused by high winds over the weekend;
19th – 'Get the Vote Out' conference - working on how to boost turnout at the European Elections on June 10th;
18th – Elliott Durham full governors meeting; school roll for next year's Year 7 projected to increase again; pupils gave report back from trip to European Parliament; school now has 3 Advanced Skills Teachers;
17th – St.Patrick's day celebartions in the Old Market Square and in the Council House;
17th – Gordon Brown's budget;
16th – Ivan Lewis MP, Minister for Young people and Adult Skills visits Nottingham; meets 20 - 30 people from the field of tertiary education and training to discuss the new skills strategy in a 'big conversation'; ambition includes improving the skills of 7 million people in the country who have not achieved Level 2;
16th – Executive Board hears of significant improvements by the Council in collecting debts;
12th – 14th – Labour Party Spring conference in Manchester; an opportunity for Councillors to discuss issues with local government ministers;
Mapperley Tories publish a leaflet asking "Where are the WMD's"? This would be the same Tory party whose leader called on Tony Blair to order a pre-emptive strike on Iraq to deal with Suddam Hussein's WMD. La de la. More on Tory gaffes.
10th – Councillor's newsletter highlighting progress of 'Respect for Nottingham' for residents along Woodborough Road & Mapperley Road, and within Mapperley Park;
9th – Address GOEM conference on Sustainable Development;
9th – First full day running of the NET light rail transit system - the 21st century tram; use of joint tickets for NCT buses and NET trams starts at over 50%;
8th – Full Council; announce budget; extra Council Tax to pay for extra services on tackling anti-social behaviour and improving educational attainment; £3.8m of savings to cover increases in costs;
8th – Official opening of the NET;
6th – 6 new designs for Old Market Square are on display;
4th – Skylink, the new bus service to Nottingham East Midlands Airport begins;
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