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The cost and benefits of cutting excessive,unnecessary Bureaucracy.
The cost of redundancies of management teams....is a one off payment cost.....gone forever......
The benefits......No more the burden of the excessive salary bill year after year...................
Every where organisations,councils..even those without the benefit of merging with other councils..busnesses,police,health trusts.BBC are merging,intergrating.
There is a correlation between the BBC and DDC and East Kent.
Chris Pattern recently became Chairman of the BBC Realisim demanded that two thirds of the management were not required bringing an end to waste,inefficencies,self indulgences
Managers are the lest productive part of any organisation.............they sit between the cutting edge of production......and the bean counters
Their generous terms of contract means less can be made available to provide the communities with required services.
Not all data was available under the Freedom of information request so the following figures are light.........................DDC FOI service is excellent.
The cost of running the administration of the four district councils of East Kent........DDC £14 million............Thanet £18 million.............Canterbury £19 million...............Shepway £11 million.
The management element being approx fifty percent of this expenditure .......................£30 million......Money which can be ploughed back into Community services or lower Council Tax or both.
An East Kent council with one management team,keeping the productive staff in each four areas with a small team of bean counters would provide enormous economies of scale.
The cost and benefits of cutting excessive,unecessary Buearacracy.
The cost of redundancies of management teams....is a one off payment cost.....gone forever......inperpertuity
The benefits......No more the burden of the excessive salary bill year after year...................inperpertuity
Every where organisations,councils..even those without the benefit of merging with other councils..busnesses,police,haelth trusts.BBC etc are merging,intergrating.
There is a correlation between the BBC and DDC and East Kent.
Chris Pattern recently became Chairman of the BBC realisim demanded that two thirds of the management were not required bringing an end to waste,inefficencies,self indulgences etc
Managers are the lest productive part of any organisation...they sit between the cutting edge of production...and the bean counters.
Their generous terms of contract means less can be made available to provide the communies with services.
Not all data was available under the Freedom of information request so the following figures are light.DDC foi service is excellent.
The cost of running the administration of the four district councils of East Kent........DDC £14 million....Thanet £18 million....Canterbury £19 million.......Shepway £11 million.
The management element being approx fifty percent.
An East Kent council with one management team,keeping the productive staff in each four areas with a small bean counter would provide enormous economies of scale.
The opportunity is available to make a marked difference to local Government finances
We do need to continue with the shared services which you have successfully installed....Congratulations it must have been a frustrating journey.....but we must progress to the Full Monty.
Q...What policies are planned during this term of office of this administration to reduce Council Tax whilst maintaining/improving community services to the residents of Dover District?
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It would be easy tocarry on as we are but all other councils are making cuts that are hurting.
The option of the four councils merging has an initial outlay but year on year we have massive savings which can benefit the Public/Council tax payers
This administration can begin in earnest to that end.The four councils should be encouraged to start proceedings with a Can do attitude .....It is not going to be easy but the Tax Payers/communities deserve the effort to be made.
Change is never welcomed........Change is part of life...........Change will happen............Change is progress.