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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
I'm on a committee known as Overview and Scrutiny: Resources which looks at how the council spends its money and in six months I am appalled and the vast swathes of waste I see everywhere in the name of ticking the right boxes.
There is a very detailed list of the spending from each department, something which is about the size of five phone books and used to get sent out to councillors as a matter of course in years gone by. I have requested a copy, I feel fairly confident I could whittle out 18%.
Whether anyone listens at Britcliffe HQ is another matter, it'll all probably be due to 13 years of Labour rule when the chips are down.
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It looks as though the savings required will be 8.9% on spending, or about 1.4 million pounds.
Time to get whittling, although to save that sort of money, some very hard decisions will have to be made. Good luck!