Matt
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I admire the initiative, but I think that a supporting website or social media link (Facebook or Twitter) – where people can ask questions or offer to volunteer help would provide people with more reassurances that it in fact was not a sophisticated scam.
Also, the actual physical address (and telephone number) and a named point of contact (e.g. a treasurer or secretary) for the Rotary Club should be included and allow people to know where it is based so people can walk in to donate.
The problem you have is that our banks are telling us all the time NEVER send your money to an unknown bank account number and sort code. It just screams red flag. My mobile banking app tells me this every single time I send money – even to family members where repeat transactions occur.
Like Rob said in the original article – Don’t mess with the bins!
The proposed £30 annual surcharge on all green bin collections is actually a stealth tax to push the council tax rate increase above 6%.
You take the current Wrexham average band C rate of £1220 annually – now a 6% hike is £73.20 on top of the current rate. The £30 surcharge pushes that up to an extra £103.20 a year – which is actually an 8.5% increase!
That increase will be an even higher percentage for lower bands and obviously a lot more money overall to pay in total on the higher bands.
All this for less services, things taken away every year. At what point are the council going to stop making the town somewhere which is no longer attractive to live in and those who can afford to do so will start moving elsewhere.
No. From what I’ve heard about what happened to some of the traders who quit Ty Pawb, I’d say the place was quite far from a success and a major cause for concern. The contract debacle and subsequent treatment of those trying to make a living there can only show the utter shambolic nature of the entire venture. Several months of shame vs one so-so arts night that brought in very little revenue. It’s just councillors hanging out soundbites as usual.
With news of the further cuts and council tax hikes directly affecting front line services – the initial council revenue and any subsequent ratepayer revenue put into the project can only be described as disgraceful. Funding for schools, social care and waste collections services? When we hear children aged just 4-11 will not be served a school dinner and be forced to go hungry at school if their parents build up any school dinner debts is ‘difficult to swallow’. When the council are throwing cash about so the likes of Clr Hugh Jones can hobnob with the local finery ‘celebrating art’. Sounds a lot like the situation with the French Revolution.
Looking at the actual consultation itself and the options given on waste services, they are strategically planning to get people to accept a £30 charge on green bins per year as it’s a far less severe option than the black bins being changed from fortnightly.
Either/Or on the consultation (or masochists can opt for both).
It’s one of those, would you rather be punched in the gut? Or slashed in the face with a razor blade?
Crafty.
One of the second tier Wrexham citizens I see, like many of us – who don’t have the recycling wheelie. Having to play chase the boxes and the blue bags – is there anything more stupid/pointless than the blue bags?
I think most people would support litter fines – just not with the majority of the fine going to corporate profits but rather put back into Wrexham’s public coffers to fund actual clean up initiatives.
Kingdom did nothing to reduce littering or dog fouling and weren’t even tasked to deal with fly tipping or things like dangerous hazardous waste such as used drug syringes.
With that in mind an in-house approach can tackle all of the litter and waste issues the town faces and not just some ridiculous narrow band where fines are handed out 99% to cigarette butt droppers – with no intention to deter butt droppers as that would mean a drop in revenues.
It will take a few years to get everything up and running but as far as most are concerned during the whole Kingdom tenure things weren’t being done properly anyway.
If people are bothered about those being fined for litter then you can’t be impressed at all by the fact that for the last number of months and until Kingdom’s contract runs down at the end of December – 0 enforcement officers are on the streets and 0 fines will be issued. I think that will end up totalling 6 months. That generally implies litter lawlessness and a categoric failure for the company to be doing what they were contracted to do.
That is the danger of mass privatisation – these firms only understand money making – they don’t give a toss about service provision to local communities or civic duty to meet their responsibilities in important public roles.
Those are no go areas – that’s hilarious! Better tell the several hundreds of regular people who venture through those locations every day without any bother that they ought not be there.
Of course the 0.6% settlement cut from WAG is going to spark off more merry go round monetary misery as they axe more services.
I see mentions of threats to the bin collections again. I really hope that moving from a 2 week collection service would be an absolute red line for any self respecting Wrexham resident who doesn’t want stinking maggot filled bins and rats everywhere if general waste gets pushed to 3 weeks. We can’t be pushed around and bullied like they’ve done in Conwy.
It’s just the Americanisation of the country again – get people to leave their cars as little as possible – maximum throughput of customers.
You look at traditional cafes and coffee shops and they are social places where people stop and relax (even if you were driving somewhere with roadside cafes) – now people are forced to believe that their time is so scarce that they only have time to blast through the drive through coffee and drink scalding hot coffee whilst attempting to drive and do all their socialising (legally hands-free or illegally) on a phone. It’s absolutely pathetic.
Also Costa Coffee is like processed hot vomit at a 300% price mark up. You order one of their cold drinks and they pour in some god awful sugar syrup into it. For any actual caffeine aficianados – it is literally a violation to taste.
Went to Ty Mawr a few weeks back & there’s a little coffee outlet there that makes fantastic coffee with much better surroundings.
