howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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People protesting outside today at the decision of the cabinet.
Captain Haddock
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Blank page, does this represent the sum total of cabinet action?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Blank page? I've even managed to download link on my 'phone. Operator error?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Blank page, does this represent the sum total of cabinet action?
Worked for me, not that I bothered to read it.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
Very thorough and comprehensive report that fully explains the rationale and justification for the proposed service provision changes; frankly a bit of a no-brainer
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Should be a lively meeting this evening Cllr Eddy makes a good point about keeping the service but cutting the number of days. 220 people use the help desk a week on average.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/public-meeting-to-decide-fate-134173/Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Fresh off the Fort Whitfield press:-
Please find below the wording for the recommendations made at the meeting last week:
RESOLVED: That it be recommended to the Cabinet:
(a) That the Deal Area Office be kept open until more information can be supplied on the usage of the area office and the impact of its closure, including:
(i) The number of disadvantaged and vulnerable users
(ii) The impact of Universal Credit
(b) That in the event that the Deal Area Office is closed:
(i) the Scrutiny (Policy and Performance) Committee be assured that training will be provided to Deal Town Council and Ward Members on how the public can access council services and assistance.
(ii) That the criteria for defining ‘vulnerable’ be developed at an early stage.
(iii) That regular feedback be provided to the Scrutiny (Policy and Performance) Committee on the impact of the closure of the three area offices.
(c) That Councillor M D Conolly be thanked for attending the meeting.
(d) That the members of the public be thanked for attending and contributing to the meeting.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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"That Councillor M D Conolly be thanked for attending the meeting."
I take it that no other Councillors attended, it must have been a very boring meeting.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Connolly was thanked as he was apparently the first Cabinet Member in living memory to dare to appear at a public meeting and risk the wrath of the great unwashed.
In passing, one of the points raised by the good burghers of Deal was that there in no member of the Cabinet who actually lives in Deal, which they thought might explain why it is treated so badly compared to Dover!
My own view is that it is because the DDC councillors from Deal are even more useless than those who represent Dover, But what would I know?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Should have been the ten members of the scrutiny committee.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Bob #11 Not correct about Mike C being first Cabinet member at a scrutiny/public meeting.
Trevor Bartlett did the Regent event recently & I did one at Discovery Centre to cover St James project. They happen so rarely.
As you also know, I was a cabinet member until 30th Sept.who lived in Deal [given representing St. Margaret's].
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Paul, and as you know, I've never allowed a few facts to get in the way of what I see as an amusing version of the 'truth'!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Sorted?
DDC Teams Up With Citizens Advice & Age Concern To Deliver For Deal And Sandwich
Residents will be able to access council services in person from 1 April 2018 thanks to an innovative partnership between Dover District Council and the Citizens Advice Bureau in Deal. Residents needing help and advice on council services will be able to visit the CAB office at 26 Victoria Road in Deal, Monday to Wednesday from 9.30am to 3pm.
Plans have also been announced in Sandwich where a partnership between Dover District and Sandwich Town Councils will enable residents to access council services at the Age Concern Centre at Sneller House, 19-21 Cattle Market every Thursday 9am to 12 noon, to coincide with the town’s market day.
Cllr Keith Morris, Leader of Dover District Council, said: “We’ve listened to what residents and their ward councillors have told us about how they use these services. We recognise that not everyone has access to a computer, and that for some, talking to someone in person is important.
“We’re delighted to be working with the Citizens Advice Bureau in Deal, and Age Concern in Sandwich, where people can access an even wider range of support and advice. We’ll be working with the staff in the coming weeks to ensure they are well trained to deliver help and advice on a wide range of council services.”
Face-to-face visits and appointments are also available five days a week at Dover District Council’s Whitfield offices and the Gateway in the Market Square, Dover.
Online services remain the most popular way for residents to contact the Council. The DDC website is available 24 hours a day for residents to pay, report, or apply for a wide range of Council services.
Posted on 01 March 2018
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Where does the money come from to pay for library so people can have that service?
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Amberleaf50 wrote:Where does the money come from to pay for library so people can have that service?
KCC run all the libraries in Kent and it comes out of our council tax.
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Thank you Howard, so why is Council Tax being hiked whilst services are being cut. It should be cut services and then cut council tax if this is happening.
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Amberleaf50 wrote:Thank you Howard, so why is Council Tax being hiked whilst services are being cut. It should be cut services and then cut council tax if this is happening.
Since 2010 Government grants to Councils have been cut year on year so the problem is a nationwide one. KCC and DDC have managed to keep services going better than most. Other authorities have closed leisure centres, swimming pools, libraries and the like. Let's not forget that this year's rise is mainly due to councils having to fork out for social care.
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Was Dover not owed a lot money Howard years ago because we took in a lot of people from other countries needing help which drained Dover of money. We Dover take a lot of heavy load and fork out for it so where is Dover's mouths getting this extra funding we need because ours is being drained because were the first Port of call as to say. We get drained and then our people have suffer cuts its bloody outrageous that what it is. If I was a Cllr/ MP I would be useing my mouth and power to make a stand for Dover people or Deal or any other Town and would not let up on it until I was heard. However, if people sit by watch it happen this is a waste of power also, as seen but the few who were protesting in Picture. There should have been hundreds where were they all whilst these braved it. There's cuts everywhere whilst spending is going on not to the benefit of the common man.
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
