Arfon Jones
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The Leisure Review report comes before Homes, Environment and Communities Scrutiny Committee on 11/12/13, and for the first time I very much expect it to be in Part 2 although the financial bits in the Appendices will probably be in part 2. It will be a bit like the Community Centre report. This is the FOI appeal that has gone to the Information Commissioner so Wrecsam Council will be aware of that and will want to be as open and transparent on this as they are allowed.
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This is what is on Sell2Wales e-Tender notice
View Notice – Sell2WalesPart 2 has been a problem for a while, nothing lately about it. The issue has been in the press, it was a subject of an internal audit complaint and a complaint to the Welsh Audit Office as well as two FOIA complaints which are currently with the Information Commissioner.
They have a Council Plan which deals with how they deliver services to the public, what they don’t have is a plan on how to work together internally and rid the place of silos.
They have now employed Consultants to determine how they can slim down the bureaucracy, they get paid an initial fee of say £100,000 and a % of what they save, so if they save £10 million consultants get a million but then we have an extra million pounds to save by cutting services! It is an odd business model to say the least.
I tried to address my concerns with this press release Plaid Wrecsam: Council has 15 different advice services – Plaid calls for streamlining to protect frontline services which wasn’t picked up by most media outlets
Quaterbridge are the name of the Consultants and there is a CONFIDENTIAL briefing note about future plans going to the Scrutiny Committee at 6pm tomorrow, sorry I can’t post this briefing paper at this time.
There is a report coming to the Business & Economy Scrutiny Committee next week by the Consultants that have been taken on to make recommendations on the markets as soon as I find it I’ll post the link up here.
Rob,
Do you really believe that there are less people taking controlled substances in North Wales now than there was in 2009?
The comparison with parking fines is flawed, illegal parking is not an addictive activity> your comparison should be with tobacco and alcohol use and even that is difficult because use of tobacco and alcohol are lawful activities and the demand for them is controlled by taxation. You have no tools to control unlawful activity like drug use except enforcement or lack of it as the case appears to be here.
I have tried to link and summarise main issues to Drug Seizure figures.
Plaid Wrecsam: Drug Seizures North Wales.
