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Thank You David
Yes, you are right, I did attend a meeting of the Town Team a few weeks ago to talk about the street market; my suggestions were openly turned down and there was some hostility from one or two T.T. members, but I won't cause trouble by saying who they were.
Your letter/email to me very shortly afterwards, was a very good put-down (polite, but a put-down nonetheless) and I was surprised that two replies to your email were supporting your (put-down) comments - to be honest, I was somewhat suprised that I was copied in on them.
As regards a Town Team Manager; I have also said more than once, that if a good quality business plan was written (and that should be easy as you are all business people) and appointments and a personal visit made to the pertinent stake-holders to discuss it and them helping support moving the Town forward with a donation towards the Manager's salary and salary related costs - in fact, if the new manager was self-employed, that would save you money too, I'm sure you would have a much better chance of success than creating a consultation paper and inviting all the stakehiolders to an open meeting.
I do not have any personal animosity to you David at all and know that you are doing your best, but some of the Town Team may well be good at running their own business, but not the Town.
I wish you luck and hope that the market is a success; I do think that you should have taken on a market manager - it wouldn't have cost you anything up front as any money would have come out of the stall-holders costs, but would have greatly helped to make it a success.
Roger