Tuesday, July 10, 2007

TIME FOR SOME OPENNESS

With Deborah's support I have tabled a motion to next week's Full Council that simply states, "Council resolves that the Undercliff enquiry be wound up by 31 August 2007." It will probably get 2 votes and at least 35 against, with Liberals sitting on their hands. Nonetheless:

It is now over 5 months since suspensions of five senior staff (now seven) were imposed and just seven weeks until the end of the summer. The Chief Exec told all councillors a month or so ago that this enquiry would be wound up by the end of the summer. A fortune is being spent from our Council Tax. It is time that we had some public accountability for that expenditure.

I said here back in March, "If a councillor cannot be told things, there is little hope of openness improving." Unsurprisingly I remain as much in the dark as I did then.

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