Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Whittlesey Movie Evenings

At Queen St Church – Sat 21st Jan

Doors open 6.30 for 7pm start.

Screening – “Top Gun, Maverick” (cert. 12A)

Starring Tom Cruise

After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators,
Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.

You are all warmly invited to come along to our warm and cosy building for a top-class movie screening plus refreshments served during an interval. No charges made for admission, however we do have operating expenses, not least for heating and lighting and the required video licence, so request that you pay what you can afford please.
Screenings every fortnight through the winter months.

Morris dancers appear to get round blackface ban by painting themselves in very dark colours for traditional Straw Bear festival

Read DM Story Here….

Local Social Media enthusiast Roy B, has posted up (I am sent) another case of ‘Rubbish’
Whether or not it belongs to the adjacent business (Saxon Petrol Station) or not remains to be confirmed or proven – but who-ever – it highlights the issue.

click on picture to enlarge. Thanks to RB & ED

Wishing everyone a wonderful Straw Bear Festival – welcome back.

Agenda for Overview and Scrutiny Panel on Monday, 16th January, 2023, 1.30 pm

Click Here To See The Agenda

‘Nearly’ everyone want more money/tax from us all – there is a squeeze, however Fendland District Council part of your/our rates have not increased for a number of years.
At next weeks Overview & Scrutiny Committee meeting –
The Draft Budget for 2023-24 will be on the agenda.

(Whittlesey Town Council will have on this weeks agenda – Budget 2023-24)

Council at its meeting on 18 July 2019, agreed to re-position the MTFS to show 0%
Council Tax increases through to 2023/24. This report extends the MTFS period
and 0% increases to 2027/28. The motion agreed by Council emphasised that 0%
increases in Council Tax throughout the MTFS period is an ambition and it was
recognised that the Council continues to face significant financial challenges and
uncertainties that may not allow this ambition to be met. These challenges and
uncertainties have been exacerbated by Covid-19.

9.4 The motion also stated that Members of the Council need to act responsibly each
year when setting the precept to balance the ambition of achieving a 0% Council
Tax rise with the legal need to balance the budget. It was agreed that raising
Council Tax in any of the next four years will be a last resort in order to minimise the
financial effects of Council Tax on all of Fenland’s households.

9.5 For information, an additional 1% increase in Council Tax in 2023/24 would
generate in the region of £81,000 of revenue per annum to the Council. Even with
this additional revenue included, the estimates for future years show a significant
and increasing shortfall (see Table 4 below).

We are ‘told’ frequently that the road sweeper and street sweeper are in Whittlesey regularly – I often challenge this, because unless they are doing it in the middle of the night – they seem pretty inconspicuous to me and most people.

Here we have ‘Buster’ driving ‘itself’ around (not sure if it is a he or she) happily going about its business of cleaning up all by itself – stops whenever something in its way and will eventually go around the obstacle.
Naturally only good on certain surfaces – but I understand – it doesn’t  waste time talking to people, taking any breaks and only needs a charge up at the end of the day….
Can we have one please….

I have asked this ‘question’ on many occasions – how much notice do ‘these’ people take of the survey results – in many cases it is seen as a ‘box ticking’ exercise to appease authorities and government.

Still this one is about the ‘Hot subject’ of Buses…..
5 to 8 minutes depending on what detail you want to give.