Gwernyfed Community Council Vacancy

Gwernyfed Community Council has a vacancy for a Community Councillor

Are you looking for a new Challenge?

Do you want to make a positive difference?

Would you like to influence decisions that affect your community?

The Community Council is an elected tier of local Government. The role of a Community Councillor is to bring local issues to the attention of the Council and to help make decisions on behalf of the community.

Gwernyfed Community Council covers Felindre, Tregoyd, Three Cocks and the Brecknock side of Glasbury.

You will need to be able to attend the Community Council meetings held on the first Tuesday of each month and spend extra time on areas of specialism or interest. Enthusiasm and commitment are more important than experience.

You must be aged 18 or over, an elector, and have been a resident, or worked, within the Community Council area for the past year. The position is unpaid.

For further information, please contact Mike Bugler (Chair) CLICK TO EMAIL

GWERNYFED COMMUNITY COUNCIL
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1972 (SEC. 87(2))

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a casual vacancy is deemed to have occurred in the office of Councillor for the Gwernyfed Ward of the Community of Gwernyfed Community on the resignation on 10th March 2023 of Councillor Margaret David

Rule 5 of The Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 2006, provides that on a casual vacancy occurring in the office of councillor of a community, an election to fill the vacancy shall be held if, within fourteen days (computed as stated below) after public notice of the vacancy has been given in accordance with Section 87(2) of the Local Government Act, 1972, notice in writing of a request for such an election has been given to the proper officer of the council of the county within which the community is situate signed by TEN electors for the electoral area.

The Proper Officer is the Deputy Returning Officer, Powys County Council, County Hall, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1 5LG.

Dated this 20thday of March 2023
Keren Bender Clerk to the Council

In computing any period of time for the purposes of this notice a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a Bank Holiday or day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning, shall be disregarded.