Full Council - 1st & 9th March - Page 7

heth · 10-03-2011, 07:47

Sounds like your meeting were fun Ken

Ken Moss · 10-03-2011, 08:05

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Sounds like your meeting were fun Ken

It gives me satisfaction knowing that although there will almost always be objections to my questions, motions and personal opinions I am doing exactly what I promised my residents I would do and standing up for Rishton and the borough of Hyndburn.

As I stated last night, it is not up to us as councillors to decide if we are value for money, the public are the only ones with that right.

garinda · 10-03-2011, 08:22

If I wasn't feeling so rough at the moment, health wise, I'd have loved to have been in the public gallery last night.

Sounds much more dramatic than any other theatre in the borough at the moment.

Neil · 10-03-2011, 08:31

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If I wasn't feeling so rough at the moment, health wise, I'd have loved to have been in the public gallery last night.

Sounds much more dramatic than any other theatre in the borough at the moment.

Unless the EDL protest outside the Civic

lancsdave · 10-03-2011, 08:49

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Would the Leader of the Council please verify the claim by Cllr Marlene Haworth in The Accrington Observer on 25th February that an extra 3,000 people have been brought into the town following Aldo Zilli’s appearance and explain how the council measured that figure?

Although the immediate response was to suggest that I was talking the town down while others were trying to talk it up, when asked a second time he indicated that there were several devices in the town centre to do this and that he was satisfied that anything Cllr Haworth had stated was true.

Then it won't be a problem to let the rest of us trying to make a living out of Accrington Town centre, what these devices are and the measurements taken before and after. It might help retailers decide if the town is worth staying in or not.

I would say at least half of our business is made up of people from out of town who one wayor another have been told about us. Several conversations with these customers have resulted in them asking us why we don't move to thier towns, surely the business would do better. without my obvious bias, Burnley in particular is becoming a more attractive business case for us.

Basically we are trying very hard to hold on until after May to see what the outcome is, but it becomes harder by the day when certain names are mentioned who are desparate to run us and many others out of town.

lancsdave · 10-03-2011, 13:45

Apparently there will be a famous 'balcony' scene on this weekend's politics show

Gayle · 10-03-2011, 15:10

There is a censor/clicker thing on the market door, I believe, that counts people going in.

garinda · 10-03-2011, 15:15

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There is a censor/clicker thing on the market door, I believe, that counts people going in.

Hardly sounds like cutting edge technology.

Sometimes the door'll open, and one person goes through, othertimes it might be six people.

Plus the automatic doors open when no one is going in, or out.

Gayle · 10-03-2011, 15:23

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Hardly sounds like cutting edge technology.

Sometimes the door'll open, and one person goes through, othertimes it might be six people.

Plus the automatic doors open when no one is going in, or out.

Perhaps not, but someone could surely ask for those figures and be able to find out for themselves what the numbers were before Aldo and after Aldo!!!

Less · 10-03-2011, 15:25

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Originally Posted by Gayle

There is a censor/clicker thing on the market door, I believe, that counts people going in.

Do they then divide the total by 2, (people also leave the market), or do they assmume that no one comes through the door on their own so multiply it by some mystical number that is plucked from the ramblings of a passing spiritualist?

I'm sure I could come up with a really expensive piece of kit that would give a more accurate figure, the only problem I could see would be estimating those missed because of the down time as someone would have to keep re-booting Windows.

(I suspect one of our 'techies', will like the above).

garinda · 10-03-2011, 15:29

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...someone could surely ask for those figures and be able to find out for themselves what the numbers were before Aldo and after Aldo!!!

Someone surely could.

Hopefully not the person who counted 400 dancers taking part in the flash mob event.

Less · 10-03-2011, 15:32

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Someone surely could.

Hopefully not the person who counted 400 dancers taking part in the flash mob event.

A simple way to find out if these things are any good is,

ask the traders if their profits have increased, during and since.

garinda · 10-03-2011, 15:35

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A simple way to find out if these things are any good is,

ask the traders if their profits have increased, during and since.

Simple, and effective.

After all, that's what it is.

A hall with market traders inside, trying to make a living.

Gayle · 10-03-2011, 15:37

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Someone surely could.

Hopefully not the person who counted 400 dancers taking part in the flash mob event.

If you must bring that up again. I never said there were 400. I think you'll find that figure first appeared in the Accrington Observer and it was their reporter who decided on that figure. Perhaps they did a head count.

However, if I remember rightly they weren't talking about 400 dancers. They were talking about the number of people on Broadway, so presumably they were including the audience in that figure.

The only number that I've given is the young people who had free dance lessons. We can actually give you an exact number for that because we have registration lists from the six community groups that took part. Bear in mind that not every young person took part in every dance either, so each dance wouldn't have had the total number.

garinda · 10-03-2011, 16:00

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If you must bring that up again. I never said there were 400.

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Here's what I saw last Saturday

About 400 people in the town centre that came in specifically for the dancing.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post864560

Perhaps you and Mystic Marlene should team up, and get a caravan on Blackpool Prom.

With your abilities to decide why a group of people have stopped to see what the hell was going on, you should prove very popular.