Showing posts with label attendance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attendance. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

How often does you Councillor attend their meetings?

A table available on the Stoke-on-Trent City Council website highlights local councillors' attendance to meetings. It includes the following criteria:

Number of meetings Cllr was expected to attend
Number of meetings Cllr did attend
Number of meetings Cllr attended without expectation (i.e. for personal interest, extra research etc)

Of course, this is not the only piece of evidence that should be used to evaluate a Councillor's performance or quality of contribution to their ward. It is simply one source which can give you an idea of their attendance rates.

The table suggests 5 councillors had 100% attendance.

No Councillors failed to attend any meetings and the majority achieved over 70% attendance.

It should also be remembered some councillors serve part-time and have other work or family commitments or fallen ill.

Using the Council data, StokeElect2011 has comprised the following table to include a % attendance for each councillor with links to all the official data on attendance per Councillor as well as data regarding their apologies for absence at meetings.

Apologies for the skew-iff table. Blogger doesn't seem to agree with lots of numbers. They look in-line when constructing the post but change when published!


% Attendance Expected Attended Missed