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Each to their own opinion, of course, but I honestly don’t understand how anyone thinks Wrexham is a great town. Compared to other towns I’ve lived in, Wrexham is by far the worst. I think of it as the sweaty armpit of Wales.
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Going back to https://www.wrexham.com/news/which-councillor-claimed-1-35-mileage-to-attend-remembrance-day-service-99364.html etc it appears WCBC do allow travel expenses from home to guildhall for meetings.
I have often stated that Councillors should have access to Pool cars and that would sort both mileage claims and parking.[/quote]
Often? Where did you state that they should have access to pool cars? And was this only in respect of councillors or also ‘top management’?
Do ‘top management’ now have to pay for parking or is it only councillors and lesser beings that have to pay for it?
How would pool cars solve this? First, it seems to me a ruse to create an empty space in the car park – i.e. the councillor will park their own car in the space vacated by the pool car they are driving. Second, it would have no effect on mileage from home to Guildhall as the councillor would still need to travel to the Guildhall to collect the pool car. So, in addition to the council being expected to provide free parking, they would now have to provide pool cars, pay the fuel costs for them and the servicing and probably car washes or other sundries. Also, if the councillor needed to travel somewhere other than the Guildhall, they would first have to travel out of their way to the Guildhall in order to collect the pool car. I’m failing to see how pool cars would be a good idea.
Perhaps you don’t actually mean a pool car – perhaps you mean the perk of having a car permanently provided by the council to serving councillors as a benefit in kind, like a ‘company car’. I imagine you would expect Guildhall parking to be free for such vehicles, as it wouldn’t be fair to ‘make’ councillors drive council cars AND pay the parking charges for those cars. So this would be more expense for the council and less personal expense for the councillors.
I think it’s excellent that the councillors’ pay rise won’t cover more than a few months parking charges as I think it is important they get a better idea of what the costs and inconveniences are for many who work in Wrexham. I am impressed and more than a little surprised that councillors are foregoing car park charges for themselves. I wonder what the decision would have been had it been made by so-called ‘top management’.
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And as for the parade, don’t even get me started – it was embarrassing!
[/quote]I know you said not to get you started, but now I’m genuinely intrigued! What did the parade consist of?
Did many people turn up for the opening?votetheconcillorsout – Are you a Trump supporter? Calling Tŷ Pawb “failing”, referring to opinions as “facts” (perhaps they are facts of the alternative kind) and, of course, claiming that news you don’t agree is “fake news”.
I’m also wondering – if we were to vote the councillors out, then presumably we’d have to vote a new lot in. Did you have someone in mind?
[quote quote=144243]Its 100 years so get over it.[/quote]
You do realise, I take it, that it is in the news so much lately precisely because it is 100 years?
It’s pathetic that even all this time later there are people who want to put women down.
I wonder if it makes some people feel uncomfortable – e.g. men who don’t want to admit that women are their equals, or acknowledge that many men would not have dared to stand up to authority as the suffragettes did.[quote quote=144351]Let’s hope the back passage works and everything comes out right.[/quote]
Yes, indeed! Who wouldn’t want such a thing.
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Well I’m sure if our councillors use country parks they will pay too, slightly different than a place of work. Unless there’s a secret country park for just councillors and senior officers?[/quote]Oh sorry, my mistake, I didn’t realise we should be expected to walk in the rain in pursuit of our own free time activities, but not when it comes to making a personal effort to get to work. I wonder how many people were unable to get to work today because it would have involved walking in the rain. Or maybe it’s only unreasonable to expect councillors to walk in the rain. If only there was some kind of invention that could help, like, say, an umbrella.
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Definitely, it seems that children don’t walk anywhere these days, or is it the parents that seem reluctant to use their legs apart from the gym after driving there :)[/quote]It’s not just children who can’t be expected to walk in the rain, apparently it’s our esteemed councillors too. See the ‘Signing of Co-operation Protocol’ thread for more details.
[quote quote=143978]I hate to Labour a point but without designated parking where would Councillors and delegates have parked? Drive around for hours to look for a place to park or put them by the Bingo hall and make them walk in the rain?[/quote]
Now they’re unable to walk in the rain? Good grief, our councillors must be delicate little flowers. If they’re not capable of planning ahead to allow enough time to find a parking spot for a pre-arranged photo opportunity, then I dread to think how badly they make plans on behalf of the council.
I wonder how the photographer managed to get there on time, or the journalist. Do they have designated parking?
