Last Tuesday I made the trek to Brook for the latest edition of the travelling Cabinet. Seaview last month (which I missed unusually), Brook this month, who knows where next month.........can't they pick a summer's evening for these excursions ?
Once again the Cabinet felt it appropriate to pack the Agenda with EIGHT important decisions for a meeting with just 10 members of the public present.
Just a list of the items on the Agenda will give you a flavour of how important this meeting was for Island Council Tax papers - Revised Revenue Budget and Capital Programme 2008/09; Budget Strategy and Capital Programme 2009/10; 14-19 Education Strategy Plan; Strategic Council Accomodation Rationalisation; latest Island Plan document; ICT Services; Quarterly Performance Reports; Change of Procurement Route for Cowes Pathfinder School........
The papers for the meeting were like a phone directory, which doesn't half task anyone who wants to challenge them about the decisions - like me. Perhaps that is why I am invariably the only opposition councillor at these meetings. I asked quite a number of questions about the current and future Budgets, and Performance, but as usual to little avail.
One thing is very clear - this Council is getting itself into a total mess.
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They remind me of Harringay. All boxes ticked, lots of pats on the back but beneath the surface a total shambles.
And depressingly millions spent on public relations to convince themselves it's all going well.
I didn't even know they had a 'travelling cabinet'!
This is to avoid, rather than meet, the public, I assume...
John Wortham and Jill Wareham live out that way? Maybe they were just trying to save them the drive.
How thoughtful!
A moving target is much harder to hit....
Has anyone seen that wanted poster in todays press? It's from Portsmouth FC cctv, the match where Sol Campbell got abused. One of them looks remarkably like DP. Who'll be first to call crimestoppers?
It couldn't be DP nobody would want him.
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