The Conservative Home’s local government blog is very pleased with the cost cutting at Devon County Council. Allowances have been cut, a scrutiny committee has been disbanded and reducing the leader and deputy leaders’ allowances to name but some of the measures.
The new council leader Cllr John Hart has pledged to “getting tough on administrative costs and waste wherever we can.”
Which is when we clear our throat and look towards East Devon and its unitary fight coast at least £175,000.
(Sarah Randall Johson, leader of East Devon District Council and county councillor for Honiton St Michaels, is up for the shortlist of Tory Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Totnes, to take over from Anthony Steen)
posted by Cptn
• How would you save money in the county council? Comments below please
Some grants to voluntary organisations have been suspiciously slow in being sent out this year.
This may be just bureacratic inertia, though we are now a third of the way through the financial year and funding promised has not so far been sent out. There are real concerns that we are beginning to see the first of real cuts to the most vulnerable.
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Early cost-cutting Conservatives in Devon meets national blog approval
By PRSD, on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Conservative Home’s local government blog is very pleased with the cost cutting at Devon County Council. Allowances have been cut, a scrutiny committee has been disbanded and reducing the leader and deputy leaders’ allowances to name but some of the measures.
The new council leader Cllr John Hart has pledged to “getting tough on administrative costs and waste wherever we can.”
Which is when we clear our throat and look towards East Devon and its unitary fight coast at least £175,000.
(Sarah Randall Johson, leader of East Devon District Council and county councillor for Honiton St Michaels, is up for the shortlist of Tory Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Totnes, to take over from Anthony Steen)
posted by Cptn
• How would you save money in the county council? Comments below please
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