There won’t be much time for blogs today because of a daytime FOI conference and this evening there is a
Public Cabinet although the democrats are planning to chuck the public out so I may get an early night.
A subject up for discussion is the
imminent destruction of youth services, they call it a redesign. The Scouts
will lose £49,000 and Danson Youth Service £89,000 and the total cuts will be over £300,000.
Teresa O’Neill issued an excuse note a week ago.
Further down the Agenda I see that
Slasher Griffin is planning to throw her colleagues to the wolves and take the top job herself.
That’ll be an awful lot of five and six figure pay offs and a 4% council tax increase to pay for them.
Behind that smiling exterior lies a ruthless chain saw operative.
Believe it or not there are Code of Conduct related FOIs that have not yet been
reported; I think that brings the total to fourteen.
Under the London Borough of Bexley Members Code of Conduct Sub Committee Rules of Procedure,
it states in Rule 3.9(e) When considering sanctions, the MCSC will consider the following questions
along with any other relevant circumstances or factors. It then lists eleven questions the Sub Committee
should consider when considering sanctions. Please provide a copy of the minutes of the MCSC meeting
held on 10th December 2015, containing the responses by the sub committee members to those eleven
questions and any other relevant circumstances or factors, when considering sanctions against
Councillor Maxine Fothergill.
And…
With reference to the decision by a Councillor to appeal the verdict
of the Members' Code of Conduct Complaints Sub-Committee hearing on
10th December 2015, please supply a copy of the grounds for appeal.
A fourteenth is Mr. Elwyn Bryant’s philosophical question about the word perception which
Mr. Alabi (Head of Legal) decided was beyond his feeble mind and told Elwyn
he’d
sent it off to the FOI department. Mr. Alabi’s priority appears to be protecting his paymasters.
It transpired a week later that Mr. Alabi had not sent the question off to the
FOI people at all but somehow lost it. Mr. Bryant has had to send it in all over again.
So that makes 14 FOIs for which Bexley Council must find excuses not to answer.
Presenting excuses will merely confirm Bexley’s priority to be covering up
shameful activities and won’t save them. They obviously have no idea of what
will be coming before too long.