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City Council February 16, 2011 The big difference

the menu of this council, we are offered both parties.
Part One: The budget orientation debate (or DOB)
After a briefing by Mr. Caudron, Finance Assistant (in short: in a difficult environment, Lambeth is doing excellently, everything is under control and controlled. Note that this is generally the speech of Deputy Finance in all municipalities, regardless of political color ...) we made our contribution. We actons that margins for maneuver are low, that borrowing is inevitable, and he will have to tighten their belts. Our comments focused cause interesting reactions:
No information on the CCAS (2 million grant last year, anyway): Mr. Caudron said our good faith and transparency on the subject. It's so transparent it will seek in vain in the documents submitted to this council, any reference to that body.
no information about the AGEMLAM (300 000 euros in grants last year, anyway): Mr. Caudron contends that we are in bad faith, that speaks to each council. We talk so, we talked about it again today, saying "I do not prejudge anything at this time" (Mr Caudron). We are now well advanced for debate.
2% increase in base is more than the 1.8% inflation: Mr Mayor reminds us that the municipal program urged him not to raise rates (subtle but important). What we say then? "Thank you, Mr. Mayor." Our suggestion to lower the rate of 0.2% is rejected out of hand. It's a shame: 0.2% is less than the cost of the "great vows," and, hence, remains Lambeth the city of the metropolis with the highest rates. But those who say this are demagogues, it is well known ...
All our work on the BOD by clicking here.

Part II: Classical council, more technical ( to see our votes on all the discussions, click here ).
We select three winks:
delinquency decline, the clearance rate increases! We welcome all. It is without doubt the announcement of the upcoming implementation of CCTV cameras that has driven our city's most skilled thieves, the latter being not yet operational.
What courage (or recklessness) he took the editor of deliberation on the work at City Hall! Dare write about this symbol that is the town hall: "This project aims to restructure the space age today, no real character and where different municipal activities have developed over the years without any real global thinking. ! We fully agree with this finding. We therefore voted with both hands this deliberation. The cost

the "great vows" -see our oral question here - (more than 40,000 euros, 22,000 for decoration) and the acquisition of the Mayor's car (29900 euros excluding taxes) we have problems . We will return in another article on the Mayor's response ("As mayor, I have a net salary of 632 euros per month, this fringe benefit costs 500 euros monthly to the community") on this last point.