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West Lancs Budget
By Steve Hanlon | February 4, 2007
Last year I wrote about how rubbish the budget scrutiny was - this year there hasn’t been much improvement. The training that the scrutiny committee was promised didn’t happen and so the budget position as discussed last Thursday was limited.
This year, as it was last year, the budget papers were stuck at the end of a long agenda - so no-one was interested and in any case, only one or two of the councillors understood the figures presented.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is local democracy and accountability in action. West Lancs style.
Looking back at last year’s papers we did at least have a commentary from each of the senior officers to explain the growth items being suggested. This year we don’t even have that. I’ll try to get hold of a copy, but in the meantime it seems that the system is set against us scrutinising anything.
Topics: West Lancs |