Is Llanrug and Cwm y Glo important to you?

• Is there anything you would like to improve in Llanrug and Cwm y Glo for residents?
• Do you worry about the future for the area?
• Are you prepared to make challenging decisions?

If so, have you considered becoming a community councillor? The council is eager to fill two seats to represent Llanrug ward.

What is a community council?

It is the tier of local government nearest to the people. It plays an important role in representing the interests of the community it serves, acting to improve the quality of life, the local environment, and provides services to meet local needs. The council raises most of its income by raising a ‘precept’, which is an amount, collected with the council tax each year.

What does Llanrug Community Council do?

• maintenance of two playing fields at Llanrug (Pwll Moelyn and Nant y Glyn);
• maintenance of two playing fields at Cwm y Glo (Dolafon and Allt Goch).
• skate park (Cwm y Glo);
• responsibility for coordinating and installation of 4 defibrillators within the area.
• kept the youth club at Llanrug open.
• the maintenance of the car park (next to Spar);
• reporting on planning applications to Gwynedd Council.
• maintenance and the care of the bus shelters in Llanrug and Cwm y Glo.
• providing financial support to local organisations in grants.
• administering the council’s discretionary grant for individuals.
• provide Christmas trees and lights for Llanrug and Cwm y Glo.
• care and upkeep of Llanrug cemetery.
• to arrange litter picking days in Llanrug and Cwm y Glo.
• to arrange the provision of grit during the winter.
• to maintain the council’s website.
• the upkeep and maintenance of public footpaths.
• grass cutting in front of estates
• administrating the food share scheme

To be eligible to sit as a councillor you must be a British, Commonwealth, Irish or a European Union citizen and be 18 years of age or over; and meet at least one of the following criteria:

• registered as a local government elector for the area named above; or
• during the whole of the last 12 months occupied as owner or tenant land or other premises within Llanrug community council area; or
• your principal or only place of work during the last 12 months has been within the Llanrug Community Council area; or you have during the whole of the last 12 months resided in the Community or with 4.8 kilometres of it.

Certain people are disqualified from standing, and these include paid officers of the community council, anyone subject to bankruptcy restriction orders and those subject to recent sentences of imprisonment.

Further details may be obtained from Mr Meirion Jones, Clerk to the Council, on 07769 112875 by e-mail to clerc@llanrug.cymru or by contacting any member of the council.

If you are interested, you should in the first instance submit an expression of interest to the clerk.