Well since there is nothing of real interest to tell you, and although the the latest minutes are on the parish council website but not on! Two copies of the same set of minutes instead of the correct ones, so somebody wants a bollocking, I've decided to show the accounts, which although published on the website are not distributed around the village in hard copy like they used to be. Since nobody usually looks on the website this seems a tad nontransparent, especially since how they spend our money is something we are all interested in. I hope you can read them.
I notice the large waste of money regards the insurance on the Victoria institute.They should ask the so called 'friends of the Victoria Institute' to repay this to the village as it was their group that stopped the original call to sell it.
ReplyDeleteI see that they have not done any repairs to the lights on the jubilee garden lights.Is the maintenance of this white elephant becoming too costly? Even the one light left, is facing away from the stone monument.I guessed this would happen once the novelty wore off.
An interesting feature of these accounts is the miniscule net cost of running The Misterton Centre. One has to question the thinking behind the plan to abandon such a superb, low-cost facility and saddle the village with massive debt for years to come by borrowing money to build a replacement on the library site. Crazy!
ReplyDeleteI suspect the reason is that some members of the unoffical opposition to the former administration don't wish to be associated with the achievements of that administration. And, achievement this was - there can be very few villages the size of Misterton with their own 'town hall'.
This attitude mirrors the farce of the Victoria Institute. The former administration wanted to sell a derelict, unviable building - so the unofficial opposition opposed it. Same with the £10k grant given by the former administration to save the school swimming pool - opposed.
David Wright