[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington]
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Originally Posted by Graham Jones
I agreed with it. Gayles was a good letter.
Basically Council Housing has gone down the tube because it has been run like Leeds United and not a business, ditto the Market Hall and anything else. Its not that we [residents of Hyndburn] are not capable. Cllr Britcliffe has kept out of Globe Enterprise's [just] and thats making a healthy profit for the Hyndburn public [as well as jobs, regen etc..]. Mind you he was pushing to shut that down and sell it off some months back.
Graham is this why Joe McIntyre can say that HBC have turned their finances around in another article in this weeks Observer.....?
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Hi Margaret, I think there are two seperate issues here. Joe McIntyre was refering to this years [current] account only.
We keep overspending and this years first quarter April-July ledger was showing a predicted year end overspend of 2% [£300,000] but he was saying that was not a lot in the big scheme of things and that measures had been taken so we finished level at the end of the year. ....And it refered to revenue [current account] spending only, not large receipts/big projects monies which are seperate [Capital Spending] or Council House spending which is also seperate [HRA]
My point was different and is about the general policies over years. They [Joe McIntyre and co.] might have balanced the books but a lot of what was spent was wasted, including non council monies which the council spends. Such as European and Government assistance to poor areas grants. ie Poor priorities, even poorer management and poor outcomes in general.