UPDATE (18/7/22): A Green Cabinet Member Replies - North Somerset Council Chairperson Responds on Councillors in Council Tax Arrears

 

Councillor Dr Karin Haverson
Chairperson of North Somerset Council

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UPDATE (18/7/22)

Cabinet Member and Green Party Councillor, Bridget Petty, has replied to us regarding our councillors council tax campaign. She said:

Councillor Bridget Petty
Executive Member
of Climate Change
and Environment

 

"Thank you for emailing us, I wanted to thank you and your organisation for your hard work and pursuit of good governance and accountability.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Councillor Bridget Petty

Executive Member of Climate Emergency and Engagement

Green Party Councillor for Backwell, North Somerset"

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Somerset Independents has now published the names and details of three councillors on North Somerset Council who persistently did not pay their council tax for months or even over years.

We have asked every North Somerset councillor for comment on the recalcitrant councillors. 

Councillor Dr Karin Haverson, who is a Green Party councillor and is now Chairperson of North Somerset Council, has reassured us and welcomed our investigation:

Councillor Dr Karin Haverson

 

"I welcome your efforts to highlight the behaviour of all of us councillors, but can assure you that I have never been in Council Tax arrears, neither before nor after I became a councillor. I am a retired scientist and have never been in business, and it would go against my principles to withhold money from the public purse.

Best wishes 

Dr Karin Haverson 

Councillor Banwell & Winscombe 

Chairperson of North Somerset Council"

 

Earlier this year, Councillor Haverson requested at Full Council, which she chairs, that she be addressed as "Chairperson".

 

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