User:Roundshaw Community Board

Do you think the Roundshaw Community Board (Roundshaw, UK) is doing a good job?!

Have you got any views on this subject? if so let them be known here.

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The board are a waste of time, they do not allow you to speak in the meetings, rather you have to write in first and still you can not speak.

You do have a few minutes to talk about problems but thats your lot.

I have been to many of the meetings over the year and most recently too and still I do not get my views heard.

Why is it almost the same 'click' on the board? !!!

The so called chair changes from one person to another each year but it just seems to toggle between just two of them!

Most of the members are there with their own `agenda` and see the board as a way to show off what they claim the board is doing when in fact it is others that are doing the work.

What has the board really done for Roundshaw? not much if you ask the majority of the resident of Roundshaw.

And something that a lot of residents know is that it is a fact that if you were to ask residents to complete a one question survey with the question... 'Does Roundshaw want or care about having the Roundshaw community board to represent them' ?

You would probably still only get the same number of people reply to that as they do when they turn out to 'vote' in whom they wish to represent them... being about 100-150 residents ish ! and their are over 6000 residents who could vote !! thats somewhere around 2% that actually come out to vote.

The voting, which happens each year, is conducted the same way as that of the General Election, but one thing some residents don't know, because most of the 6000 resident who chose not to vote, (which is their right !) they don't realise that their vote is done for them, by none other than maybe a candidate who is standing or by maybe someone already on the board !!

So a lot of changes need to be made to the rules relating to the voting methods the board is currently using.

One of which must be changed, in a General Election, candidates are 'NOT' allowed to vote for someone else who is not able to vote themselves, a postal vote is used in these cases.

Also candidates and board members are not allowed to enter the voting areas to potentially vote for others.

And the number of votes made should be made know.

Another fact that is not public is that when, and most of the time this is the case, there are two polling stations, you can vote twice ! without even being questioned !

The board needs to come clean with the way the voting is conducted and why when so many people are standing for election, that most of the time it is the same 'click' that gets back in.

Of the current members of the 'board', please let your feeling be know here. Freedom of speak is a wonderful thing, as long as it is not liable, so as they say 'keep it clean'