Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Money can be spent on this business but there is not enough to keep things like streets clean, flower beds planted or our public toilets open even on Remembrance Day, I think the council priorities are all wrong.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Surely this is a positive move.Many of my friends go to this cinema and in the holidays children.The toilets were open in the Town Hall on Remembrance day .
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Of course the toilets in the town hall are accessible whenever the building is open to the public but not advertised as such. Perhaps more should be made of this, I have occasionally popped in and down the stairs to the Gents' for a sly Pee when passing. Sue, your comment about your friends and their children may leave you open to charges of cronyism. Perish the thought.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
that's right about the chldren's holidays, always queues outside prior to opening.
a lot of pressure was put on our councils by the regulars at the thursday classic film daytime show, with many writing individual letters imploring ddc and dtc to step in, eventually the former did.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,262
Yes Howard, I know quite a few regulars of the Thursday classic film shows who wrote letters to the council asking them to help & as Sue says above, many children enjoy going there in the holidays, so good news all round
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
we thought it was all sorted but now looks like the town council will not match fund the district council.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Dover-Town-Council-stalls-20k-vital-funding/story-20839202-detail/story.htmlBrian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
tight and wad springs to mind,along with some one with the initals g.c.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
`The Town Council is looking at ways to make the Cinema more open to other functions,and wants to see if DDC have an open mind on doing other things in there as well,i don't think the funding will be in doubt although it is difficult because it is a business.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Again we see the town council going back on what they said , they would match fund and they should do just that.
It is not their cinema, it is run well as a cinema the council they get over 600,000 pounds of public funding the public have said help save the cinema as a cinema and that is what they should keep to. Also get a new good local town clerk one the public can talk to ,and one that does not try to run the council she is the clerk only it should be members of the council that do it the ones the public vote not a officer who is a outsider to the town.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
Vic Matcham wrote:Also get a new good local town clerk one the public can talk to ,and one that does not try to run the council she is the clerk only it should be members of the council that do it the ones the public vote not a officer who is a outsider to the town.
A local councillor should not be talking about the Proper Officer of an adjacent local council in that way on a public forum, no matter what your personal views are.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I am a member of the public and just because I am a parish Cllr does not change that nothing wrong in me putting my views forward on a public forum that is what it is for and I do hope that members of the town council pick up on it,thats why I wrote it. And I also have some concern over the Dover Town council choice of a town clerk..
If that has upset you .(TO bad)
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
- Posts: 759
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Yet another example of the ridiculous situations which arise from our system of having too many layers of 'government'. "The more servants the state employs, the more they imagine themselves to be our masters." (Cicero).
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Very true at the cost of over £600.000 and getting more each year it is time it went.
They are there just to give the reds some kind of power.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Power which the reds have shown, over and over again, that they cannot be trusted with.
Pause to don tin helmet.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
DTC will no doubt be damned if they do and damned if they don't - DDC probably have a different view as they own the building and don't operate under the same
financial regulations as the town council.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Having been a DTC CLLR there is no excuse why they have not done this
They should have done their homework before going to the press.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
as usual Vic you talk and talk yet have no idea what is going on.As far as getting rid of the Town Clerk I am sure River want to get rid of a Cllr but cant until next May.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I think you need to spend more time trying to keep up with the times mate.
