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Mayo County Council passed its new Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy 2010-2014 at Monday’s meeting of the local authority. The policy was originally designed to be uniform county-wide, but both Ballina Town Council and Castlebar Town Council have made a number of changes to the policy to tailor them to their own needs.

A number of councillors expressed their concerns about flooding that occurred on Monday after the first heavy shower of rain of the winter. Fine Gael councillor Johnny O’Malley told the meeting: “I’m very concerned about the flooding in Newport today. There was a lot of money spent there recently and it has flooded again. I got a call at 10am this morning about this from a person and I spent a couple of hours trying to get in touch with someone in the council to get some pumps or something in, but I could not get anyone. At 1pm I went over there myself and I could see how bad it had got for the people, we need to have something done again on it.”

Independent councillor Frank Durcan wanted to have a debate on the ongoing Department of Environment, Community and Local Government investigation into the management of the Mayo North East Leader Partnership, following a recent complaint.

Mayo presidential candidate Mary Davis formally launched her bid for the Áras this week after receiving more than the necessary backing of four county councils, including Mayo, and will seek to repair Ireland’s international reputation and restore national pride if elected.

The members of the Ballina Electoral Area this week called on the council to look again at a planning application for four wind turbines that is scheduled to be turned down for permission by the council.

Mayo County Council is coming under pressure from the Department of Environment to get the new social housing leasing scheme up and running, despite the protestations of both the council officials and members about the scheme.

Members of the housing SPC were vocal in their condemnation of thuggery taking place in housing estates throughout Mayo, as other residents live in fear.

The members of Mayo County Council are to fund their own study trips in the future it was agreed at the June monthly meeting of the local authority.

The members of Ballina Town Council will have an item on the July agenda of the local authority to discuss the reversal of the traffic management plan in the town. The issue arose after Cllr Johnny O’Malley questioned how much money had been spent on the implementation of the second phase of the traffic plan when the members were considering the financial update on the councils spending up to the end of March this year.

Land values in certain areas of Ballina could dramatically rise due to variations in the town development plan.