What would you Cut in your Council?

MegaMiniMouse

drc wrote: »

• The monthly magazine - waste of money, goes straight in the bin.

I contacted my local authority specifically on this issue, and the reply was that the advertising in the magazine actually generates a small profit

I would close fiction lending libraries, whose role is easily covered by charity shops, but...

I would keep reference libraries and free internet access, because to do otherwise is to impose a form of state censorship

MMM

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Cut it all.

Make the councillors put it all out to tender, get better services for lower cost, problem solved.

lostinrates

Several tiers of ineffectual ''management''.

concerned43

All managers earning over £35k
Housing Officers/inspectors
Board of Directors (replace with elected councelors)
All staff dealing with non-essential services - I got a letter in from my council yesterday asking if I wanted to join their book club! also did I want to sign up to their training programmes:

• learning why your children behave the way they do!
• Learning what your child learns at school!
• Self awareness
• Confidence building

These all run and paid for my the council! God give me strenght:mad:

robin_banks

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Cut it all.

Make the councillors put it all out to tender, get better services for lower cost, problem solved.

Council Tax and housing benefit/rent processing, refuse collection, building maintainence, support services for vulnerable adults etc are already put out to tender.

Many services cannot be measured by price alone there has to be a qualitative aspect to their work , i.e. education.

whatyadoinsucka

keep: teenage pregnancy / contraception advisory services
sack the new £110k resources director (phd, and 7 ex councils experience), that replaces a lady who only started the job on a six figure in Nov 2010

daveyjp

"Pensions to council workers - I have to fund my own pension through my own income."

So do Council workers.

epsilondraconis

Cut - anything that wouldn't interfere with/disrupt my life.

Save - anything that would interfere with/disrupt my life.

diable

Cut the Olympic top up fund....
Reduce council tax.

Cleaver

Cut: things that aren't productive or cost effective.
Keep: things that are productive and cost effective.

That might involve keeping a Cheif Exec on £150k because they are great and it might mean getting rid of a lollipop team because they aren't needed any more. And it might mean the complete opposite. Without looking at various councils and the specific results how can I judge?

Actually, I'm not joining in with the sentiment of the thread am I? Let's see if I can get in to the spirit. Erm...

Cut: stupid programmes that encourage lesbians to knit, chief execs, anyone earning over £17k, disability engagement officers, teenage pregnancy advisors, anything in Urdu, people earning over £12k, gay officers, equality and diversity officers, chief execs, people earning over £25k, people earning over £18k, directors, consultants, overpaid people, people earning over £16k, people earning over £24k, people earning over £14k, paper, paperwork, any type of paper product, strategies, synergies, synagogues, synapses, people earning over £28k, football equality lesbian coordinators, lesbian Urdu community officers, anyone over £19k, [STRIKE]BTL landlords[/STRIKE] (sorry, wrong rant), anyone earning over 8k and penions. Yes, definitely cut pensions.

Keep: I'd like to keep any profession that's low paid and fits in to a lovely salt 'o the earth type cliche that makes me proud to be British. Bin men and lollipop men basically, especially really cute old men called Ken who have been doing it for 30 years. In fact, put Ken in charge of the council. Then keep anyone earning under 4k, people who look after old people, people who look after people who dribble, anyone that refuses to touch paper work, Ken, lollipop men, bin men, bin lorries, road sweepers, Ken, lollipop men, Ken, Ken, people who earn under 3k, Ken and Ken.

Basically, my strategy for all councils is to sack everyone aside from lollipop men called Ken. I'd pay around a dozen Kens in each city around £2k each and get them to do everything. I'd farm the rest out to the private sector.