AGM formal notice
Notice is hereby given that the annual general meeting of Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats will be held at the White Rock Hotel, 1-10 White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1JU, and by Zoom on Friday 8th Dec 2023 at 7.30pm.
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Dear Member
Notice is hereby given that the annual general meeting of Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats will be held at the White Rock Hotel, 1-10 White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1JU, and by Zoom on Friday 8th Dec 2023 at 7.30pm.
Zoom Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81694623645?pwd=pfCDPamLbrw3dbum2zIfOU0H7MMiqG.1
Agenda
- Apologies for absence
- Minutes of 2022 Annual General Meeting
- Matters arising from minutes of 2022 Annual General Meeting
- Report from Chair
- Report from Treasurer and approval of accounts for 2022 and 2023
- Reports from Local Council groups
- Election of Officers and Executive.
- Election of auditor/auditors:
- Trustees report
- Any other business.
All members of Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats may stand for election to the executive. The posts are President, Chair, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Secretary, Data Officer, Membership Secretary and ten members of the executive. Nominations can be accepted up to the end of item 5 on the agenda, but otherwise should be notified to the Hon. Secretary, Stephen Milton, by the 1st December 2023 at smilton@denaploy.co.uk
Thank you
Candidates for Rother District Council election next May 2023
Ahead of the Rother District Council election next May, local Liberal Democrats have announced their candidates for three key local wards.
Brede & Udimore, Southern Rother and Rye & Winchelsea will be important battlegrounds next May: Liberal Democrats currently hold two of the five seats, with the other three being held by Conservatives.
Martin Griffiths has been re-selected to stand in the Brede & Udimore ward, having lost out to the Conservatives in the by-election held earlier in 2022.
Sitting Lib Dem councillor Andrew Mier has been re-selected to fight the Southern Rother ward (Fairlight, Guestling, Icklesham and Pett).
Guy Harris, the editor of the Rye & Winchelsea Focus newsletter, hopes to be elected in Rye & Winchelsea, where incumbent councillor Rev Howard Norton retires in the spring.
Welcoming Guy's selection, Cllr Norton said: "I am delighted that Guy has been selected by local party members. He has been a huge support to me in the ward over the past months and I have been particularly impressed by his vocal campaigning to safeguard our local health and leisure services and for his interest in farming issues. He will make a splendid councillor and be a terrific advocate for Rye & Winchelsea residents."
The three candidates are pledging to fight hard for residents and businesses, for a low-carbon future for the district, for sound finances and to maintain high quality, accessible health and leisure services for Rye and the villages.
Cllr Mier says: "I hope residents feel that we have listened actively over the past four years and put forward their views with energy. That is exactly what we plan to do in the next four."
I am honoured to have been re-selected by party colleagues. We have not stopped working in Brede & Udimore since the by-election and I get increasing contacts and casework from residents who recognise the Lib Dems' commitment to supporting local communities.
By Martin Griffiths, chair of the Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats