It's two months since the elections and tonight I completed the last of my training sessions. It never occurred to me before I became a councillor just how much a councillor needs to know in order to do the job properly. And I am so impressed by the standard of training that's been provided.
Tonight's session was an overview of local authority finances. Not a particularly exciting topic but the presenters were able to explain a complex subject in simple terms which even I could understand!
Revenue, capital, budgets, monitoring, scrutiny - oh yes, it was all there! And I think I now understand how they all fit together.
So the training sessions are all over but I suspect I've still got a lot to learn!
