howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
we could all see this coming, the question is where the axe will fall.
at the bottom of the article ddc is asking what services we can take over as a community, we have a head start with the connaught park urban guerillas.
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Dover-District-Council-cut-1m-year-s-budget/story-17457227-detail/story.htmlKeith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#2
And our leader says the council tax likely to go up 2% next year.
Services going down and down
shipped out
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
#3
Our four District Council`s cannot cope.......the situation will continue to deteriorate........there is an answer......
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
reg
that took you all of 18 minutes, either you were busy or you are slipping.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#5
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#6
The cuts need to bee
,pensions sickness pay and perks
Hospitality , subsidised canteen ,printing in other languages
Work a basic 45 hour week like the rest of us
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
#7
subsidised canteen?
perks?
Hospitality?
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#8
the article states that job cuts are inevitable, keith mentions printing stuff in different languages - i always wonder who pays for the translators stationed in g.p. surgeries.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#9
Unnecessary fact finding trips when a conference call would do.
More natural wastage rather than redundancy.
Really deep thought before more new outside high paid staff are employed, internal promotion might be cheaper.
Lastly turn the heating down a couple of degrees like we are always being told to do with our homes.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#10
. Canteen There hasnt been one for years .Open plan offices hardly tropical heat .Hospitality ???I think I will start up guided tours of the office.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#11
The cuts must be biting the council's renewable energy sensibilities as the big windmill at Honeywood towers hasn't moved for the past four or five months. The maintenance budget must have been diverted to another cause.
Mind you it's not alone in not moving if you take a look at this live update for the amount of energy produced in the UK
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#12
I may be wrong, but is it not a fact that hospitality has followed council meetings?
Do some council employees get privet medical perks?
And cars to some employees as a wage package
I think we should sack to get back to £600 a year tax.
All employees should be on 6 months rolling contracts, and there jobs be up for wage comparison with the privet sector
Example , if we have 20 sectaries claiming benefits in the job shops willing to do the job cheaper, they should be given the chance, at doing them jobs ,in the interest of the taxpayers
If you think this hard on public sector workers ,you should remember the people struggling to pay these tax bill ,
we don't have a printing machine like the back of England , the pots empty and you need to wakeup and smell the coffee
Me and millions like me work under these sort of contract all the time, nobody give us nothing
I get out bid or charge too much I get the pump; I get sick I get the pump.
And you should to.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
#13
Don't forget Keith that only a small proportion of the council tax goes to DDC - so no matter how much you want to 'sack people at DDC' you won't get to £600 !!!
£931.36 KCC
£146.16 DDC
£123.27 Kent Police
£60.40 Kent Fire
Total £1261.19
As I said on another thread for a normal householder (ignoring business rates) you are paying £2.80 a week to have your bins collection which will probably cost most people that do drive to Whitfield to do it yourself... doesn't sound bad to me ?
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#14
ok keith i will be the first to ask the question "what is the pump"?
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#15
Sorry howard the sack!
It's a posh working class new word
