Not enough notice?

IS IT any wonder why only one in 200 of the town’s population turned up for the Arundel Town Council meeting on the May 12, when there was limited notification of the meeting (Hostel threatened, Gazette letters, May 19)?

I had been checking the town council website regularly, as l can’t always get down to read the notices in the town and there was no notification until just before the meeting date.

I can’t believe that the council did not know the date until the last moment, as they had to invite the speakers long before.

Steve Long

Canada Road

Arundel

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* Tony Hardie, Arundel Town Council’s assistant to the town clerk, replied: “The Town Council tries to communicate important council information by a variety of means.

The annual town meeting had been discussed and minuted at council meetings since March 24, which is available on the website.

The notice was created on May 3 and I have every reason to think that the website would have been updated forwith and the notices put up on notice boards at the Town Hall, the Town Quay and Dalloway Road.

A press release was sent to Jeannie Knight at the West Sussex Gazette and Littlehampton Gazette for the attention of Roger Green and Veronica Cowan giving details of the annual town meeting.

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I am not sure what constitutes “last moment” but would consider more than a week’s notice sufficient to advertise the town meeting.

Last year, there was less advertising and at the meeting itself, there was standing room only.

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