Susan Gaszczak

Liberal Democrat Campaigner

Six to Fix

Susan is the County Council Candidate for Vicarage and Holywell division in Watford. Susan lives in the centre of the division, right on the boundary between Vicarage and Holywell wards. Susan lives in Hagden Lane with her three children. Her older two children go to Westfield Community Technology College and her youngest goes to Beechfield Primary School in North Watford: Susan could not get a place at the start of the school year in a local school.

Susan lives in West Watford

Susan and her children outside their home in West Watford

Susan has worked closely in recent years with her colleagues on the County Council ensuring improvement to services were provided. Susan has got the County Council Website redesigned to make it easier for people to present petitions and ask questions of the council. She improved bilingual access to council documentation. Susan also reported and got improvements to the fire alarm policies sent to all schools. When the snow fell and the County Council failed to clear our roads, she ensured that the County Council finally started listing the school closures on their website.

Susan has a keen interest in protecting and representing elderly and vulnerable people as well as a good knowledge of waste, minerals, employment, planning and social inclusion.

Susan works as a communications consultant and organiser for a variety of organisations. Before this Susan worked in retail management.


Incineration the Liberal Democrat Position

Tue 9th Mar 2010

Derek Scudder, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Waste said: 'We agree that the New Barnfield site is unsuitable for any sort of waste management facility. The Liberal Democrat group at County hall has consistently opposed the use of the site and on a number of occasions has put forward motions to that effect. The ruling Tory group has always voted these down.

School Choice? Not for almost 2,500 children

Wed 3rd Mar 2010

n a press release issued by Herts County Councils on secondary school places, it was announced that 95.48% of children had been allocated one of their ranked schools - up 2.63 per cent from 2009.

Who is telling the truth on grit?!

Tue 5th Jan 2010

Liberal Democrat councillors have been left asking who is telling the truth on the grit situation following misleading statements. One statement from the county council's portfolio holder for roads which has been contrasted by a briefing sent to all County Councillors from the council officers doing their jobs, without the political spin.

County runs out of grit

Tue 5th Jan 2010

Tory-run Hertfordshire County Council has today admitted that it can only go out and grit the roads 6 more times this year. That is the equivalent to 2 nights' gritting - as they admit in their own press releases.

Tory calls £300k 'petty cash'

Mon 21st Dec 2009

County councillors were reeling today when a leading Tory County Councillor called a £300k overspend 'petty cash' and said it was 'nit-picking' to raise it'.

Has County done its job in dealing with the snow?

Fri 18th Dec 2009

Earlier this year we had travel chaos as the snow fell and roads were left ungritted. We are already getting reports of the gritters not being able to get over bridges and leaving whole villages ungritted.

Goods news on snow updates

Fri 18th Dec 2009

Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats are very pleased their nagging earlier this year at the County Council to make their website informative and and responsive to extreme weather conditions has finally paid off. The new system introduced for the first time today is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately with nearly 500 schools if you have a child at Beechfield and another at Westfield, both in Watford, it is quite hard to tell if they are open or closed.

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