All female team at the top in Thame

WITH the selection of a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Thame yesterday (12/05/09), the town council now has an all-women team at its helm.

Working with the guidance of Town Clerk, Helen Stewart, the new Mayor of Thame is Cllr Jeannette Matelot Green and her deputy will be Cllr Nicola Dixon.

After taking the Chair at last night’s Thame Town Council AGM, Cllr Matelot Green said that she intends to get more involved with the development of the Thame Cattlemarket site and that she will “insist on the continuation of the Thame Information Centre which is vital for Thame.”

The new Mayor also vowed to work to make the High Street “a more pleasant place to be in during the evening.” She said that there had been “a serious deterioration lately with young people in cars congregating there, particularly at the weekends when the Pizza Parlour is open until 2am.”

Cllr Matelot Green told the council that she hoped it would look at ways of improving parking in Thame and investigate ways to make temporary use of empty shops in the town for community use, for which, she added, Government grants are now available.

She promised more consultation with residents about such things as The Core Strategy. “It is important that we do our best as a council to get the right solutions for Thame,” she said.

The Mayor concluded: “When I first moved to Thame, I thought I had found the perfect spot. Now I feel that I have to maintain it and fight for it.”

Photo: Left: Thame’s new Deputy Mayor, Nicola Dixon
Right: The new Mayor of Thame, Jeannette
Matelot Green