Originally Posted by gynn
Let's go back to the emptying of Acrylic Bob's bin mentioned in a previous thread.
The people who empty it are Community Services, as are the people driving them to Bob's house in a lorry which needs to be looked after in a garage that needs to be maintained, again by Community Services staff. They have to be told which house to go to by a supervisor, and someone has to check that it is the right type of rubbish in the right colour bin. They all need to be managed by a director, probably called the Director of Community Services, although such titles seem to have been replaced by "Executive Director" to justify a pay rise.
Got it so far? So far its all Community Services.
The problems start after that, because the Director needs to be guided by a councillor who needs to decide how often the bin will be emptied.
Someone has to keep a record of how much it is all costing. Someone has to ensure that nothing illegal is being done in emptying the bin. Someone has to fill in the forms to say that the bin has been emptied, into the right colour box at the right price and in full accordance with the law. Someone has to fill in more forms which compare how the bin has been emptied compared to bins in a council of similar size and standing, and someone has to fill in a form to show that in empying ther bin, the Council has acted in accordance with its corporate strategy. Finally, someone has to decide whether the emptying of your bin, along with the other services that the council provides makes the council weak, poor, average, good or, in Hyndburn's case, excellent. And of course all these people need to be told how to do it by a supervisor who needs to be managed by a director who needs to be guided by a councillor who wants to take the glory.
This last list of people, the Councillor, the Coster, the Legal Eagle, the Form Filler, the Box Ticker, the Strategy Officer, the Supervisor of all these people and the person deciding whether Hyndburn is excellent....are all part of the Policy and Corporate Governance. As is the Director - Executive Resources who writes reports about it to Cabinet meetings. And they all need feeding, courtesy of Councillor Hurn, and they need something to identify who the top dog is, hence the medal with a yellow ribbon.
So its no surprise it costs so much.
Clear now?
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