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County Councillor Tim Prater for Folkestone West

Tim PraterTim Prater was elected to Kent County Council for Folkestone West division in the elections of 4th June 2009. He won by 11 votes, overturning a previous majority of over 1600 and defeating the Conservative Leader of Shepway District Council.

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Tim says:

"I would like to say thank you to everyone in Folkestone West. This was clearly a close election, and I'm delighted to have won. I will do my best for the area and look forward to working at Kent County Council as a part of the Lib Dem group who are now the official opposition on the County Council."

You can find out more about Folkestone West's Liberal Democrat Kent County Councillor Tim Prater on his own website at www.prater.org.uk

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  • Ian Chittenden and Tim Prater collect for Kent Dress-down day
    Thank You to Kent Staff for Children Charity Collection
    Article: Dec 30, 2011

    Kent Lib Dems are delighted that their annual Christmas dress-down day at Kent Council Council raised £608.62 for the Kent Fund for Children.

    Over the last few years, over £7,000 has been raised from Kent County Council staff and Councillors for this good cause through the Dress Down Day. You can find out more about the Kent Fund for Children at http://www.kent.gov.uk/news_and_events/news_archive/the_kent_fund_for_children.aspx.

  • Money piling up
    Kent Faces £1.5 million loss despite Iceland's Unfreezing of Kent Cash
    Article: Oct 31, 2011
    By Tim Prater, Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Finance on Kent County Council

    Lib Dem Kent Finance Spokesman Tim Prater has welcomed news that Kent county Council should now recover the large majority of money from its investments in Icelandic banks, but has pointed out that losses and costs over recovery of the funds will still have cost Kent CC around £1.5 million.

    The Icelandic Courts ruled on 28 October that Kent County Council and other UK Councils are "preferred creditors", and as such should shortly see the large majority of funds held in Icelandic banks Landsbanki and Glitnir when they crashed in 2008 starting to be paid back to Kent. A third bank, Heritable, has been making staged payments back to Kent for a year and is expected to pay back at least 85% of the total deposit of £18 million Kent County Council had with them.

  • Kent has "No plans" for Mass Sackings and Rehiring
    Article: Jul 21, 2011

    County Councillor Tim Prater has welcomed a reassurance from Kent County Council Leader Paul Carter that the Council "had no plans" to follow other local authorities in making large numbers of staff redundant and offering jobs back on a reduced salary.

    The commmitment was made in response to a question from Tim Prater to Paul Carter at Kent County Council's meeting on 21 July.

  • Question to Kent County Council, 21 July: KCC Staff
    Article: Jul 21, 2011

    Question by Mr T Prater to the Leader

    "Can the Leader of the Council reassure this Council and its staff that Kent will not use the approach of making large numbers of staff redundant and offering jobs back on a reduced salary, a practice recently used by a number of other authorities?"

  • Tim Prater
    Kent to receive £6.5m to tackle potholes
    Article: Mar 25, 2011

    Councils have been told how they will benefit from the doubling of funding available for repairing potholes as announced in Wednesday's Budget. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has written to all English local highway authorities to inform them of their share of £200m.

    To promote greater transparency and accountability, all local highway authorities have agreed to publish information on their website by 30 September 2011 showing where this extra money has been spent.

  • Conservative Buffets V Lib Dem Services
    Article: Mar 7, 2011

    Keep our buffets, cut our services: that was the message from Kent Conservatives at the County Council's budget meeting.

    Conservative councillors voted to keep £1,000 buffets for councillors and to put £5 million into a "Big Society" fund. At the same time, the Conservatives slashed spending on many services, including moving the start time for pensioner free bus pass use from 9am to 9.30.

  • 12,000 signatures IS a ludicrously high target
    Article: Nov 10, 2010

    The Kent Messenger's Political Correspondent Paul Francis has written in his blog today (http://tinyurl.com/3yju3j2) about the Kent County Council E-petitions scheme. He calls the 12,000 signatures required for a County wide issue to be debated by the Council "Kent E-Petitions "a ludicrously high target". He's right - which is why the Kent County Lib Dem Group tried to halve that figure to 6,000 when the e-petitions scheme was introduced.

  • Kent Primary School Applications Start 8 November
    Article: Nov 3, 2010

    Is your child due to start school in September 2011? Parents can apply for primary school places between Monday 8 November 2010 and Saturday 15 January 2011. Thousands of families from Kent will submit applications for up to three schools of their choice.

    The easiest way to apply is online. Last year about 13,500 families did just that for their primary school preferences. Parents can find out more at www.kent.gov.uk/ola.

  • Kent, Greater Essex and East Sussex Local Enterprise Partnership Area
    Kent, Great Essex and East Sussex Local Enterprise Partnership: Where did THAT come from?
    Article: Oct 28, 2010

    The Government has announced that it has asked a new Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) covering "Kent, Great Essex and East Sussex" to come forward with firm proposals as one of 24 bids asked to progress their bids today. Kent County Council Tim Prater has expressed surprise that the proposals for a Kent and Medway LEP favoured by many local Councils and an Kent and Essex LEP promoted by Kent County Council Leader Paul Carter seem to have been rejected for the three county "Super-LEP".

  • Andrew Stunell MP
    Make Our Local Councils Work For Local Business
    Article: Oct 26, 2010

    Lib Dem Tim Prater has lobbied the Government on Business Rates. At the recent Lib Dem conference, Tim spoke with Government Minister Andrew Stunell. He asked him to return the control of Business Rates to local councils. Currently the rates paid by businesses are collected by local councils and then forwarded on to the Government. Some money is then returned to the local councils.

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