Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You may be right Howard - this is my most recent email to DDC:
"Sorry about the delay, I've just returned from extended holiday.
I walked down to Dover yesterday and the rubbish/waste/wheelie bins are the same as they always are - overloaded, lids left open (even when not overloaded), rubbish on the floor, pieces of furniture etc.
I sincerely hope that some real action is taken soon; I've been a Councillor for this ward for 11 years now and with all my photos, emails and pleading for a permanernt solution, over the years, nothing has changed.
Fingers crossed this time".
Roger
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Roger, please help me out.
You are a councillor yet you are emailing DDC to complain. Is that standard procedure?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Councillors propose, officers dispose. To paraphrase the old adage.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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until ddc grab the bull by the horns and address the symptoms that cause the mess then nothing will change.
inertia rules on the folkestone road issue.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Of course I complain David - about many things; if something is wrong, I complain about it.
Roger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes but does anything get done? if not no use complaining and in Folkestone rd nothing is getting done that lasts more then a day.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Perhaps the quality of response to councillors' queries/complaints ought to be incorporated into the officers' KPIs. That's if the concept of staff performance measurement has yet crept into local authorities' thinking.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
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has it not peter.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Peter Garstin wrote:Perhaps the quality of response to councillors' queries/complaints ought to be incorporated into the officers' KPIs. That's if the concept of staff performance measurement has yet crept into local authorities' thinking.
In other words, officers blame councillors and vice versa.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Not at all David.
Roger
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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No David, I mean that if officers are judged to have not co-operated fully with councillors during an assessment period, they should be heavily marked down at their periodic performance reviews and miss out on pay rises/promotion. It's obvious from what Roger says that he has been given the run-around, but he is too much of a gentleman to blame the officers.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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In that case Peter I'm correct. I'm not doubting Roger's integrity or manners, I'm simply trying to ascertain where the buck stops.
Anyway I'm visiting the area tomorrow with the local press so we can see for ourselves the state of the place.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The buck never stops in local 'government', it just goes round and round until nobody is looking, then it gets punted into the long grass.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well no need to worry anymore about Folkestone rd then if Mr Little is going up there with the press.
I think we all have done that over the years with the press but still the same .
So is Mr Little going to get it all done overnight what the rest of us have been trying over the years?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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as if by magic the bins have been emptied today, plenty of rubbish/furniture spread around though.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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There you go Vic
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
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Show us the UKIP money.Vic
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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do not worry yourself there will still be alot of rubbish up there so you can stand next to for your photo in the press.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Vic, I'll be outside the Town Council from 10.00 on Saturday, perhaps you can bring along the branch's money you have.
Your point about the rubbish still being there is exactly why I'm going up there. Taxpayers deserve a better service, I'm sure you agree.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Again we have been saying that for years nothing new .