{"id":9133,"date":"2022-03-23T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2024-07-07T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:04:16","slug":"community-council-vacancies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/community-council-vacancies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Council vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>There are currently have two vacancies on our Community Council! <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>If you are a resident within the St Monans &amp; Abercrombie ward and would like to help take practical action in the interests of the communities of both villages, why not consider applying?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#c7e1f3\"><strong>What does the Community Council do?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Community Councils are established throughout Scotland to ascertain, co-ordinate and express the views of their communities to both the local and public authorities. Community Councils are encouraged to promote community participation and a sense of community spirit within their village or town.<\/li><li>Every Community Councillor is a volunteer who has been voted onto the Community Council and are not paid for their work.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#c7e1f3\"><strong>What is the time commitment?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We currently meet ten times per year (July and December are holiday months) usually on the third Monday of the month at 7.30pm.<\/li><li>The next election for the entire Community Council will be in October 2023.<\/li><li>We hope to fill the vacancy at the next meeting of the Community Council on Monday 18 April.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#c7e1f3\"><strong>How to apply?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Candidates can register their interest in standing with either the Chair, Vicki Salvage (<a href=\"mailto:v.salvage@btinternet.com\">v.salvage@btinternet.com<\/a>) or the Secretary, Stuart Bridges, up until\u00a0<strong>12 noon on Monday 18 April<\/strong>. You need to be 16 years or over and be on the electoral role. Candidates will be able to address the meeting if they wish or send in a short summary about themselves. A secret ballot will be taken at the meeting by the Community Councillors.<\/li><li>If you want to discuss the work of the Community Council in more detail, please feel free to contact any Community Councillor. \u00a0<\/li><li>Alternatively, please email us at:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:community@stmonans.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">community@stmonans.org.uk<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently two vacancies on our Community Council &#8230;<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/community-council-vacancies-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=1200%2C350&ssl=1","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=1200%2C350&ssl=1",1200,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=300%2C88&ssl=1",300,88,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=768%2C224&ssl=1",768,224,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=1024%2C299&ssl=1",1024,299,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=1200%2C350&ssl=1",1200,350,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P2020628-1200-x-400-e1740599278310.jpg?fit=1200%2C350&ssl=1",1200,350,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Stuart","author_link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/author\/stuart\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"There are currently two vacancies on our Community Council ...","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rNeI-2nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}