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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
I've just had the budget through and it's a fairly weighty tome but I will be asking questions about it. From a quick glance it seems that the main area of interest will be Policy and Corporate Governance.
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The last Government put a lot of weght on ticking boxes to show how Hyndburn was performing in meeting targets, achieving policy objectives and implementing new government dictats. The more ticks you got, the higher your score. If you got enough ticks, you got the title "Excellent". As we've seen often enough from postings on this site, such an award was ludicrous in Hyndburn's case.
However, such box ticking brought with it a whole raft of bureaucracy which took pen-pushing onto a new level. Hence the astronomical Policy and Corporate Governance budget.
If the Council can get an assurance from Eric Pickles and his colleagues that the new Coalition Government is sweeping aside all that bureaucracy, then your budget setting will become a piece of cake, Ken. Good Luck!