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An enormous amount of work has been
undertaken and all staff from wherever they
came have been working wonderfully together.
Most Council staff have been equipped to work
from home, even the customer service centre
staff and extra support has been given to help
them to do this. Most offices have been closed
and we have all learned how to work in a new
world of virtual meetings.
The Council have also been working with
businesses to make sure their funding is
received as soon as possible and in most cases
managed a 5 day turn around from receipt of
application to payment of grant. Staff have
worked all hours and weekends and bank
holidays to achieve this.
In addition within days of the emergency
being classed as a major incident eight support
hubs were established to help support the most
vulnerable in our communities. Many staff have
been temporarily redeployed to assist in local
hubs to help with food parcels and making sure
those isolating and shielding have everything
they need and just keeping in contact with
people on their own.
Alongside all this, the Council has also had to
make sure that business as usual continues,
which it has done, with some hiccups along the
way, with issues with staff for waste collections,
and having to close household waste recycling
centres. Thankfully, all are back to normal now
although a new kind of normal, but we can
move forward to a this new world of social
distancing and ways of working. Things will not
go back as they were before either for
employees of the Council or for Councillors, as
home working will still feature as will on-line
meetings for some time to come. Public
meetings in the offices are not planned for the
foreseeable future as with around 200
councillors because of the cancelled elections, it
will be hard to find somewhere large enough to
accommodate so many with social distancing.
However, Councillors are still there for
residents. You may in the past have had to go to
different councillors for different things, well
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Village Voice June/July 2020
now we all do everything! Just keep to your
individual wards and pick a councillor and they
should be able to help you with anything
council related from planning to waste to
schools and everything in between. We are all
listed in the back pages but please bear with us ,
as some of this is new to us too and we are
learning as we go! Keep Safe! Katrina Wood.
Deputy Leader. Buckinghamshire Council. Cabinet Member
for Resources and Councillorr
Chepping Wycombe Parish Council
For Tylers Green and Loudwater (and also
Hazlemere). As reported in the last VV, all our
meetings were cancelled as they could not be
undertaken safely during the Covid pandemic
and there was no legal mechanism to allow
on-line meetings when this happened. Now the
Government has brought forward emergency
powers to allow this and online voting to take
place, so our first Full Council meeting was held
successfully in May. This hasn’t delayed any
urgent business and we are still managing to
carry out our normal office functions. The
offices are virtually closed to the public but
manned every morning and some afternoons to
allow our staff to work reduced hours in the
office and stay safe, but we have taken steps to
allow them to work successfully from home and
the clerk is always contactable by email during
our normal hours. All the usual work is being
undertaken by our grounds team including litter
collection, grass cutting and hedge cutting,
within the parameters allowed, including
travelling to site in separate vehicles and
maintaining social distancing.
We are very grateful to the volunteer litter
pickers who have been regularly collecting
rubbish around the common especially at the
weekends and bank holidays. With more people
out and about and taking daily exercise at the
moment, the bins are filling up quicker than we
can empty them, and this can be both a health
hazard and unsightly. We are therefore pleading
for people to “Take their litter home”, especially
if the bins are full, as discarded waste and
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