[accyman]

elected people can deal with teh polotics and a competant person ie a manager can be in charge of teh money its not rocket science there is nothing undemocratic about having a person in employment to be in charge of teh budget regardless of what party is in power and teh person is answerable because he is in a job and if they dont do teh job properly they get fired

if a councilor wants somthing for their area they can put it to the vote amongst the other councilors and if they get the agreement/win the vote then they can go ask the manager in charge of the money if it is available and if it isnt because the manager has set aside money to allow for public services then the request gets refused and they have to find teh money elsewhere


the problem with outside advice is that it can be ignored and will be just like the advice given over what they should award themselves as a payrise was where they were recomended i think it was around %6 and they had a vote where they decided a %25 payrise was in order.I forget where i read about this it could well of been on here when the expenses etc got plastered over the site and it could well have been our very own council