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Flamenco & Staffing Problem

2009-11-13T12:35:23Z

I was in the Town Hall this morning assisting a couple to get their certificates of empadronimiento when I was involved in a conversation about the amount of work which the Town Hall clerical staff seem to have to do. It transpires that when Isa t...

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Pleno 11th November

2009-11-11T17:16:02Z

Just to inform you that the budget for 2009 was agreed in Pleno tonight. I have full details of the figures for the income and outgoings if anyone is interested. No agreement was reached on any future expenditure yet due to the small surplus in th...

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Remembrance Day

2009-11-11T11:03:05Z

Just returned from the 1st Remembrance Day service ever held in Zurgena church (San Ramon Nonato). For a first occasion it was quite well attended although I suppose I was a little disappointed at the numbers. The service was led by the local pr...

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WiFi (2)

2009-11-05T17:22:24Z

I have been speaking with the engineer in Madrid who installed the system and he has been answering questions through the earlier blog thread headed WiFi and he has suggested that anyone with problems or queries uses the forum at the below link. ...

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Court Papers, Budget & WiFi

2009-11-03T11:44:29Z

Called in to the Town Hall this morning and managed to catch Candido briefly. He was sitting surrounded by about 30 boxes of papers which he informed me were the papers they had been to collect from the Courts last Friday. He now, instead of crack...

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Padron and Police

2009-10-29T17:33:01Z

I went to the evening meeting last night at 5.30pm. I was told that it would either be in the Town Hall or the bar. When I reached the Town Hall it was locked and appeared deserted so went to the bar but no one was there. So for the first time us...

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Busy Week

2009-10-28T15:05:50Z

I have had quite a busy week so far this week primarily with Neighbourhood Watch stuff. The coordinator at Turre was having problems with the Guardia Civil not getting onside but following a meeting we had this morning they are much happier to sup...

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21st October

2009-10-21T11:15:24Z

Had a meeting with Candido this morning for about an hour and was able to get some answers to some of the issues. Firstly they had resolved the problem with the sewerage at Llanos del Peral. Next I asked about reports in the press where the M...

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20th October 2009

2009-10-20T11:09:32Z

Called in on spec today primarily to find out how I could pay the traffic denuncia which I received last week from Granada. The denuncia did not have any telephone numbers or email addresses or any suggestion of where to pay the 40 euros! After ...

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WiFi

2009-10-15T08:14:18Z

To update you regarding the WiFi as many people have been asking. The current situation is that we have the original aerials up and running covering most of the municipality but there are areas where the signal is not very strong and we are awa...

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