Full Council - 1st & 9th March - Page 2

Ken Moss · 02-03-2011, 09:02

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Originally Posted by Less

Could the F.O.I. thing be used to find out how many and how much it costs to provide us with this service?

Or is there some form of unwritten rule?

Yes you may eat the crumbs remaining from the top table so long as you do so at your desk and report back to me about Kenweb.

I don't have a desk, sir. I'm just a poor forelock-touching waif with rickets that must share a small office with the rest of the peasant Labour councillors. Spare a tanner?

Reporting back on Kenweb during office time is one of those unquantifiable duties that when questioned would be denied, despite the fact that everyone knows it goes on and even who the culprits are. It's simply more fuel to the argument that certain departments could be made to run more cost-effectively, as was laid out last night by both Labour and the Independents.

Less · 02-03-2011, 09:03

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

I presume it's 0, I do hope it's not 00 or that would be greedy

No mention from our Ken that he is going to refuse this boost to his area for the greater good of all though.

lancsdave · 02-03-2011, 09:04

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Originally Posted by Less

No mention from our Ken that he is going to refuse this boost to his area for the greater good of all though.

He'll just take the money and fritter it away

Ken Moss · 02-03-2011, 09:06

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Originally Posted by Less

No mention from our Ken that he is going to refuse this boost to his area for the greater good of all though.

Take what you can from the Leader while it's offered, it'll only get spent on a brass plaque otherwise. Mind you, he'll be needing that 0 on polling day to top up his own votes.

It was made abundantly clear last night that Cllr Horne has been coming up with all the good ideas in Rishton whilst Harry Grayson and myself have been doing absolutely nothing to bring the plight of the village to the attention of the council.

Check the minutes again, old boy.

Less · 02-03-2011, 09:07

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I don't have a desk, sir. I'm just a poor forelock-touching waif with rickets that must share a small office with the rest of the peasant Labour councillors. Spare a tanner?

Put an advert in Buy, Sell n Swap - Accrington Web.

Some kind person may just have a desk going spare.

Ken Moss · 02-03-2011, 09:10

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Originally Posted by Less

Put an advert in Buy, Sell n Swap - Accrington Web.

Some kind person may just have a desk going spare.

What I'm really after is another seat actually, the blue one we already have is a little bent.

Less · 02-03-2011, 09:11

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

He'll just take the money and fritter it away

Oh no! You mean it will be gone in a flash...Dance?

lancsdave · 02-03-2011, 09:13

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Originally Posted by Less

Oh no! You mean it will be gone in a flash...Dance?

It saves him worrying about the toilets, he hasn't got a penny to spend

Less · 02-03-2011, 09:14

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

What I'm really after is another seat actually, the blue one we already have is a little bent.

I'm sorry, you want a seat?
But you stood for election why can't you continue the way you started?

Ken Moss · 02-03-2011, 09:19

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Originally Posted by Less

I'm sorry, you want a seat?
But you stood for election why can't you continue the way you started?

We've managed to re-upholster two of our Rishton seats in a lovely shade of red but the third blue one only gets brought out every four years and we haven't been able to find any cheques to persuade people it needs re-covering in their own interests.

I'm hoping that in May the public will decide they finally want some splendid red material instead.

gynn · 02-03-2011, 09:27

Did we get to the bottom of the £82,416 additional income to be generated by the Corporate Services section?

That figure worries me greatly. It is very precise, which means there must be a calculation written down somewhere.

Though not, dare I say, on the back of an envelope!

Ken Moss · 02-03-2011, 09:29

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Originally Posted by gynn

Did we get to the bottom of the £82,416 additional income to be generated by the Corporate Services section?

That figure worries me greatly. It is very precise, which means there must be a calculation written down somewhere.

Though not, dare I say, on the back of an envelope!

It would be an insult to you if anyone pretended that we were given anything approaching an explanation.

What worries me more are round figures, which to me smack of being plucked out of the air.

jaysay · 02-03-2011, 09:39

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

It would be an insult to you if anyone pretended that we were given anything approaching an explanation.

What worries me more are round figures, which to me smack of being plucked out of the air.

They wouldn't do that....................would they

gynn · 02-03-2011, 09:46

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

It would be an insult to you if anyone pretended that we were given anything approaching an explanation.

What worries me more are round figures, which to me smack of being plucked out of the air.

Well can I suggest that the first thing you do on the morning after the May Election is to call an emergency meeting of the Corporate Management Team and demand a detailed report on each line of the budget savings.

I fear you are about to inherit an illegal budget!

Ken Moss · 02-03-2011, 09:53

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Originally Posted by gynn

Well can I suggest that the first thing you do on the morning after the May Election is to call an emergency meeting of the Corporate Management Team and demand a detailed report on each line of the budget savings.

I fear you are about to inherit an illegal budget!

Your advice, as ever, is appreciated. I simply don't know how it has got through, particularly with the Director of Finances that we currently have.

I think Conservative excuse is along the lines of the tried and tested 'usual reply' whether they win or lose.