Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
This was discussed by cabinet yesterday .Lots of detail if you can stand to read it .Forthcoming projects planned.HRA interesting.Council tenants will get another 1.% Rent decrease for the fourth year running.More money on Deal pier.Now we wait to see how much KCC will want plus Police .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Pray tell what is HRA when it's at home and what is interesting in this instance?
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,912
will we get a play area now then lol?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Housing Revenue Account.This is ring fenced.What goes in by way of rent pays for maintenance.Currently there are a number of rent arrears.There is a balance as to what improvements can be made,
Money is set aside for emergency repairs ,but new kitchens. Bathrooms etc have to be planned.When a Council property becomes vacant money has to be available to make good if required.hope that helps .
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Look up the report Keith.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
"Housing Revenue Account.This is ring fenced.What goes in by way of rent pays for maintenance.Currently there are a number of rent arrears"
No great surprise with universal credit in force.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
That is the problem Howard .
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,912
Looked it up Sue no play area lol
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
No not this this time .I think you will have to get all your fellow colleagues to try again.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
Don't delay. It's time to tell DDC just how much you love DEI initiatives and loathe clean streets.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Well WGS how did you do?
Street cleaning etc, loos, waste collection & possibly parks etc to me are sacrosanct. So where do we go with cutting the rest?
Do you want to promote the area ? Offer community organisations grants? Enforce environmental crime , fly tipping etc?
Then the rest ?
Enjoy doing cllrs work for them . They can say we let the community decided & it’s their fault when the redundancy notices go out.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I tried to fill in the form but gave up in the end .The Officers are paid to inform and hopefully guide it’s the Councillors who make the decisions.They can take the flack .Like you Parks etc are so important .If the public don’t like it they can register their feelings at the ballot box.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,047
Perhaps some redundancy notices SHOULD go out Paul and some of these jobsworths could do some of the jobs that apparently we need an extra 750,000 immmigrants a year to fill?
'If you claim Income Support or Jobseeker's Allowance you should normally either be not working or working on average less than 16 hours a week.
Partners of people receiving Income Support/Jobseeker's Allowance are able to work for, on average, up to 24 hours a week, without their partner’s entitlement being affected'.
Last time I checked on Deal Town Council there were 3 full time & 9 part time staff, the latter whose 'income' is supplemented out of our taxes!
They've got more part-timers than Deal Wetherspoons!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
I would review DDC's Port Health operation, of which, nowadays, it's fair to say I know very little. It strikes me that this is a service to protect the UK as a whole and so IF I'm paying for it, I don't think I should be. Personally I think it should be done elsewhere as much as possible, but in any case any DDC operation should be funded by central government or else the charges to the trade should at least cover DDC costs and ideally more than cover them. Certainly the charges should NOT be less than those levied by Portsmouth City Council for their operation (and they own the port, for Pete's sake!). Any connection between DDC and Eurotunnel should cease or run at a profit.
(Not my real name.)
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Port Health was always contentious . I have forgotten the funding regimes . The Whitfield redevelopment was supposed to house Port Health with its extra responsibilities from changes in legislation. Don’t know where that rests at present. As we know DHB own the port unlike Portsmouth so charging makes life more difficult. Thank you Button for nudging the grey cells on that one.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,865
Sorry but the cynic in me says that consultation is a waste of time as most plans are decided already.
I just want the recognised important things to be done and forget the headlining unimportant and unnecessary grandiose ideas, even if they are partly funded by central government.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,047
I got as far as page two where you are meant to reduce a budget overall by 10% but there is no way to total your result. Crap (but not unexpected) design.
I never knew a single public consultation that made a blind bit of difference anyway.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,051
Apart, maybe, from that thingy in 2016?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
Paul Watkins wrote:Well WGS how did you do?
Community Services, Community Safety & CCTV, Environmental Crime - SLASHED
Waste & Recycling - MAINTAINED
Street Cleaning - INCREASED
Grants - ZEROED
Economic development - CUT
Parks & open spaces - INCREASED
Property management, public conveniences - MAINTAINED
Museum - INCREASED
Tourism - ZEROED (covered by Economic development)
Climate change initiatives - BIG ZERO
More manuals, fewer admins please.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,058
I would urge all forum members to spend a few minutes on this exercise (even if you believe, like me, that this is merely a 'consultation'), for their are two major personal benefits:
- immediately: the opportunity to assess and, if necessary, improve the condition of your mental arithmetics
- long-term: you will be able to adopt a superior moral position and be snarky whenever KS accuses you of 'apathy'
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
