A New Larger Executive Board !
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I wonder what the Price Waterhouse Cooper report will have taken out about how to save money from the Council Members budget. Clearly after tonight’s fiasco when only one element of the Wales Audit Office and Legal Advice was put forward for consideration.
The selectivity of reports being presented for consideration is just showing that everything is fully decided in advance – all that the web cast has done now is to make those who watch it have less faith in the system that is in place .
I hope that the removal of Clr Phil Wynne from three Scrutiny Committees is due to his own personal situation and not because he actually asks the right questions which the Executive Members don’t like being pulled up on..Power crazed Council Executive springs to mind – we have a Leader that throws statements around that the Council need to save £45m – this is incorrect, this was the situation at the start of 2014/15 £15m plus has already been saved.
There was not one single Member of the Executive pr coalition that stood up last night to support the proposal other than a 15 second support from Deputy Leader Ian Roberts. They have probably kept quiet as some will now take on Leadership roles
I agree with Carol the ex Labour Group have shown they have lost their way and given up their personal views on representing the people in their wards.
Come on eighton get your act together and sort out the Council mergers – Wrexham may not be heading for financial bankruptcy but they have certainly slipped into moral bankruptcy.Flintshire has 70 Councillors and a Cabinet of 8 members, Wrexham has a smaller number of Councillors and larger number on the Executive Board. What criteria are used to make these decisions ?
The object of webcasting Council meetings was to show local democracy in action. In fact it has shown local dictatorship in action. ‘Procedures’ are used to restrict proper debate (as was evident last night) and dissenting voices do not have the opportunity to put alternative views forward.
The new format of the Executive Board has been introduced part way through the electoral calendar which makes it look even more like a power grab by the ruling group.
I don’t know if I’ll bother looking at any more Council webcasts.
Dylan
Agree totally with your first point amazing none of them has seen fit to put their new found agendas to their electorate.
As to your last point don’t give them ideas- they already stifle the members questions ,change meeting times to inconvenience any working people, carers, people with family considerations from participation-I could go on. So all Part 2 would not be a big leap !With all the devious and almost corrupt antics now going on, it is time that Cardiff sat up , took notice and placed WCBC into Special Measures. It is increasingly more obvious that our representatives (?) are not fit for purpose and rather than applying their efforts to effectively running the Borough, they are more intent on increasing their self-believed kudos.
It is a certainty that no benefit is being accrued by the citizens of Wrexham County Borough.I tend to agree BenjaminM. The Leader of the Council went to some length to say the Council were consulting with the public, and cited the case of the Council not reducing the amount spent on road maintenance, as requested by the public consultation. In my opinion the road maintenance should never have been a cost reduction in the first place. It surely was common sense not to reduce this, but there again there does not seem to be much common sense in these politicians. The changes made to the Constitution at last nights meeting, were put through without any serious debate, as they had been advised by the Welsh Audit Office in a telephone conversation. When the Welsh Government put forward changes in amalgamation, our Leader threw his toys out of the pram and would not listen. On the one hand he listens, on the other hand he does not. The Executive Board meetings come across as the Mark and Ian show. If it is not broke do not fix it. Spend an extra £63k which we have not got, and see nothing in return. It cannot get any worse, can it.
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