| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Ealing Council Pays £1.7 Million for YMCA Building | |
| Posted by: | Arthur Breens | |
| Date/Time: | 14/03/11 22:43:00 |
| Four members of the Regeneration Team went to MIPIM. (This whole exercise has been paid for by "sponsorship" so has cost us nothing). That worries me. In this very delicate area as a council tax payer I would have prefered to have paid. Yes paid for independence and paid for the master servant relationship. Naive for the council to have let key officers get "into bed" with developers (all expenses paid) and in Cannes of all places. Who agreed to this? Was there a debate at a full Council meeting? Is there a conflict of interest? When I was a civil servant and later when I worked for Barnet I was subject to a whole set of guidance notes regulating gifts and such partnerships. They were definitely not on. Perhaps that doesn't apply anymore in this Big Society. So who are these sponsors and what is their angle? Perhaps they would like to answer that here. Fat chance! What sites were discussed? (A)"unlocking some of our more problematic sites" (B) Odeon (C) Arcadia (D) Cinema (Is that the same as the Odeon?) (E) Acton town hall So there we have it Eric and George it makes no sense because we don't understand the hidden agenda and we wouldn't like it and are unlikely to profit from it anyway. With Easter on the way I am not a happy bunny. |