Times are tough at Cornwall Council. I accept that hard decisions
need to be made. But today it was as if Cornwall Council was in its own
bubble.
The Council invited 10 year old Leon Remfrey to present his library
petition today (and not at the October meeting as he requested) when it
was already too late to amend the Budget specifically to deal with his
concerns on reductions in the library service.
It presented a cobbled together last minute amendment to help address
concerns over the proposed 55% reduction in the winter road gritting
budget (646 kms instead of 1400 kms of road gritted). Instead it would
reduce the maintenance of road gulleys and therefore increase the risk
of road flooding.
The administration proposes large increases in parking charges and
the introduction of on road parking charges but it will continue to
allow staff to park for free until at least 2017 as a result of its deal
with the unions.
The only area of the Council that remains uncut is the cost of
councillors. Nineteen "focus groups" later but no efficiencies have yet
been made and almost none are proposed. As a member of the press said
to me, the Council do not do irony!
That is the Cornwall Council bubble.
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