Complaints about and against Sambourne Parish Council
Redacted extracts from complaints and the comments by the Monitoring Officer can now be read.
- The first wave - 2020 - cost £11,500. Complainants referred to as C1-C4 for the moment.
- View Warwickshire County Council Gateway Scheme for Sambourne. No breach. No action.
- View Flooding in Middletown Lane. No breach. No action.
- View EGM on The Green. No breach. No action.
- View Chairman's emails...not listed. MO's comments only. Breach. Public apology.
- View Complainants' comments about the chairman. Listed but not investigated by the MO..
- The second wave 2022. Cost currently unknown. MO comments and ruling.
- View Complaints about Cllr Quinney - May 2022. No breach. No action.
- View Complaints about Cllr Taaffe - June 2022. No breach. No action.
- The third wave 2022. Cost in excess of £15,000. Recorded under item 6, minutes of SPC meeting January 2023.
- View Complaints against Cllr Moon - May 2022. No breach. No action.
There have been at least seven complaints - some containing additional subsequent complaints - were made against members of Sambourne Parish Council over a two year period.
All except one have been rejected.
The cost of the exercise:
- Monetary cost in excess of £26,000 in investigators' fees.
- The high personal cost in terms of stress and anxiety suffered by the complainees and their families.
- Unspecified additional cost to the public purse - the involvement of officials at SDC and WCC.
- Further, police involvement involving many home visits, at least one formal interview and a restriction order applied to several people in Sambourne.
It prompts a reminder of the statement read by proxy and recorded from SPC meeting September 2021 .
3. Election of Chairman "I hope there now can begin a process of healing and reconciliation and that
we can all move on to more peaceful times in our beautiful village."
Really?