15th January 2006, 10:43 AM
Having been responsible several times for the annual 'what shall we cut?' game in local authorities, I am sure you know that the trick when asked for savings is to offer choices which you know will be politically difficult, rather than something they can take easily. That is why you always see the headline stuff like ' old people's homes to close', 'welfare services to be slashed', rather than 'stationery budget to be halved' or 'fewer new computers to be bought this year'.
By the way, why should council tax payers subsidise developers by providing support (in cash and kind like support services which aren't billed at real cost)to local authority contracting units? Surely they (the units) are an anachronism? I'm with the Doc on this one.
By the way, why should council tax payers subsidise developers by providing support (in cash and kind like support services which aren't billed at real cost)to local authority contracting units? Surely they (the units) are an anachronism? I'm with the Doc on this one.