On the subject of legacies and the like, we thought it would be useful to reproduce some of the figures in the last Lib Dem budget that have appeared in the local press.
First the spending cuts for the present year:
* £98,000 from children’s out of school activities
* £12,000 from money on youth service grants
* £10,000 from graffiti cleaning
* £15,000 from maintaining community buildings
* £100,000 cut from sheltered work schemes
* £288,000 from road repairs
* £148,000 taken from street cleaning
* £100,000 from cleaning public toilets
* £39,000 reduction in public health services
* £143,000 cut in environmental health services
* £40,000 grant reduction for school pupils
* £118,000 from post-16 school transport
* £50,000 slashed from school bus services
* £190,000 trimmed from parks services
* £115,000 from the Dylan Thomas Centre
And then come the “priorities”
£170 million on the controversial Service@Swansea project that can’t ‘afford’ to have a call centre
£10 million on decimating the city centre so that a ‘bendy-bus’ can turn corners – but no refurbished bus station in sight.
£13 million on converting County Hall into a “Peoples Palace” which includes £230,000 on new office suites for cabinet members and chairmen
A £40,000 makeover for the mayoral chain.
Over £6 million spent on outside “consultants”
Nearly £4 million to buy external legal services
A £60,000 pay-off to a former chief executive
All in all, a pretty stark indictment of an administration that has not just become a liability to itself but to the city and county in general.
First the spending cuts for the present year:
* £98,000 from children’s out of school activities
* £12,000 from money on youth service grants
* £10,000 from graffiti cleaning
* £15,000 from maintaining community buildings
* £100,000 cut from sheltered work schemes
* £288,000 from road repairs
* £148,000 taken from street cleaning
* £100,000 from cleaning public toilets
* £39,000 reduction in public health services
* £143,000 cut in environmental health services
* £40,000 grant reduction for school pupils
* £118,000 from post-16 school transport
* £50,000 slashed from school bus services
* £190,000 trimmed from parks services
* £115,000 from the Dylan Thomas Centre
And then come the “priorities”
£170 million on the controversial Service@Swansea project that can’t ‘afford’ to have a call centre
£10 million on decimating the city centre so that a ‘bendy-bus’ can turn corners – but no refurbished bus station in sight.
£13 million on converting County Hall into a “Peoples Palace” which includes £230,000 on new office suites for cabinet members and chairmen
A £40,000 makeover for the mayoral chain.
Over £6 million spent on outside “consultants”
Nearly £4 million to buy external legal services
A £60,000 pay-off to a former chief executive
All in all, a pretty stark indictment of an administration that has not just become a liability to itself but to the city and county in general.
