East Acton councillor really can’t be bothered
The attendance figures for Ealing's local councillors have just been published, see here:http://www.ealing.gov.uk/downloads/download/679/member_attendance_20122013For the third year running East Acton’s Cllr Atallah Said stands out as being spectacularly poor in terms of attendance. Some councillors work extremely hard and are scheduled to attend 50, 60, 70 or even 80 meetings a year. Cllr Said was set the incredibly low target of attending 8 council meetings and 3 ward forums this year. He failed to attend half the council meetings so only attended 7 out of 11 meetings scheduled for him. He therefore only managed 64% attendance. He was the second worst performer after another Labour councillor, Wendy Langan, who seems to have given up entirely without explanation. This is not a new thing. Last year Said had by far the worst attendance record of anyone on the council. He only attended 8 out of 14 meetings (57%). The first year that Said was a councillor, in his first flush of enthusiasm, he managed 19 out of 33 meetings (58%) and was also the worst attender. Acton residents won’t be pleased that this man is drawing an allowance of £9,612 to go to 7 meetings. The man makes no other visible contribution to the life of the Borough. £1,373 per meeting.
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