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Originally Posted by steeljack
Think it would be interesting if someone could do a review/tally of how many Council employees the "old' UDC's" had who now make up Hyndburn, and compare it with present day numbers .....I'm sure the numbers are available somewhere, but think it would require a request under the freedom of information laws to get the HBC to release such information ,unless one of the Local Councillors were to request the numbers in an HBC meeting ........ Ken Moss .. over to you
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Thank you, Steeljack. And in other news.....
It's actually probably quite comparable to the number of collective staff we have now, although the old UDCs had a lot of unpaid people around the table. Although people do look back fondly on those pre-1974 days, financially speaking they would probably have had to change drastically in the intervening years. I've still not heard a convincing argument for abolishing them, though.
However, speaking personally there are only a few cuts I would make within HBC itself as the machinery itself does seem to be quite efficient for the most part. One particular department could be excised at a stroke and its role subsumed by other departments but that will never happen under a Britcliffe administration as it was his idea in the first place. The only thing truly wrong at the moment is the man pulling all the strings.
Give a monkey control of his environment and he will fill the world with bananas, with little regard to what anyone else wants.