| Topic: | Re:Re:The real management story | |
| Posted by: | Phil Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 18/03/11 16:21:00 |
| Cllr Mahfouz, You seem to have changed the subject. Perhaps you could tell readers here how many times Labour put up an alternative budget during the four years you were in opposition. I am sure that you never did. The £6.5 million figure you have used is derived from Labour's own press release. Here: http://www.ealinglabour.com/ealing-conservatives-challenged-to-provide-alternative It is hilariously wrong. The Albert Dane saving figure as stated in both cabinet papers and budget papers is £156K not £536K. The PCSO figure should be £250K not £750K. The property strategy figure in the actual budget is £1,383K not £1,970K. That chops £1.467 million of your figure straight away in simple Labour errors. Most of the saving in the property strategy is from squeezing people into Perceval House. No problem with that. The bit no-one likes is building three shiny new offices for council staff. Again with parking I don't think any Tories have suggested that we would continue to freeze charges but merely that after a four year freeze Labour's increase was a bit eye watering. I cannot recall anyone complaining about the digitisation of the CCTV infrastructure. I think that takes another £2 million out of your £6.5 million leaving maybe £3 million I would like to put back in. The value of the difference between Ealing staff Ts and Cs and the kind of Ts and Cs most people have at work is about £30 million. I think we could find your outstanding £3 million with some gentle negotiation with the council's own staff. |