The Dover rag
- 15 September 2013 11:30244792I see in the rag that the council have splashed £18000 on consultants to advise them haw to ,,save money,,
I hope its not the same consultants that advised them to splash £94'000 on a turbine generator, that ended up in the skip - 15 September 2013 12:10244797have you a link to that keith as i don't remember seeing it?
mind you i was probably too taken aback by the editor's claim the the express website broke the news of the aycliffe bomb scare when in fact this forum broke it thanks to brian.
integrity? wherefore art thou? - 15 September 2013 12:17244800There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
with budgetary constraints, she did not know what to do
Personal expenses aside, with so many to feed
which child should go hungry, a scapegoat, her need
Social services would fall on her, whatever choice she did make
how best to proceed, and how best to onus forsake
All her children were precious, but yet one she must starve
she lit a cigar and mused, how least blameworthy her cake she should carve
In a flash she hit on a ruse whereby the deed could be done, sans blame resultant
she thumbed through the phone book for a Management Consultant
With much joy, and no little sense of relief, and to rapturous applause
the cutest child withered, but none thought her the cause.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 15 September 2013 15:24244817Front page howard
- 15 September 2013 15:33244819that was about a consultation not consultants keith if my memory serves me correct.
- 15 September 2013 15:35244820I could be wrong ,it happen some times
- 15 September 2013 15:40244821this was all about asking us to tick boxes on what services we think are more important than others and they take heed.
the results are taken into account and filed away safely in the shredding machine. - 15 September 2013 15:45244823Couldn't they have a tick box bit on the tax bills ,then only them that pay will have the say ??
- 15 September 2013 17:32244828I remember watching with horror as DDC appointed, at no small cost, a consultant to carry out a consultation by a private company. I had trained two of the consultants on how to carry out the process and they would not agree to retain my post to cover the consultation time. It would have saved them money.
- 15 September 2013 18:03244835Keith B , the wind turbine was paid for by external grants and cost DDC council tax payers nothing directly on council tax. Likewise the Big Screen cost DDC nothing for screen or installation.
Watty - 15 September 2013 18:11244836paul
Who paid for the grant ?? - 15 September 2013 18:22244838A government dept and the former development agency I believe.may have been a third source but notDDC
Wattty - 15 September 2013 19:20244840I mentioned before that I tried it and gave up because I thought it was confusing in its aims and badly thought out.
After speaking to the chairman I tried it again and persevered to the end - I now think it's even worse than I initially thought, glad to hear we didn't pay for it but sincerely hope no notice is paid of the results! - 15 September 2013 19:27244843Yes I was going to write about this one,just to say that they could have half that cost or even more by giving it to a school as a project the schools need cash and they would have done a good job on this one by sending out 15 to 18years old and they would have like to do it to, any school would have taken that on for £5000 or less.
- 15 September 2013 20:07244848i am totally confused again, are we talking about the big screen, wind turbine or the consultation?
- 15 September 2013 20:12244850I was returning to talking about the consultation and cheekily suggesting I hope we hadn't we hadn't paid for it after Paul's comment!
- 16 September 2013 09:28244889Keith Bibby wrote:Can't do that Keith, Terry Clear would get quite indignant....Couldn't they have a tick box bit on the tax bills ,then only them that pay will have the say ??Dover and Cinque Ports Life Magazines are on Facebook www.facebook.com/DoverandCinquePortsLife
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