Tonight Barnet Council Cabinet Resources Committee met at 7pm to discuss the business case for the Future Shape / OneBarnet / BarnetTrack project. This is the project that Council Auditors Grant Thornton said was required before the project could proceed. The document is 161 pages long and contains a report submitted by Unison detailing serious flaws in the case presented. Eight detailed questions were posed. You can download and review the document here.
http://committeepapers.barnet.gov.uk/democracy/reports/reportdetail.asp?ReportID=10206
I turned up to the meeting with my video camera to record the meeting for posterity. Due to childcare & traffic, I arrived at 7.20pm, twenty minutes after the meeting began. Guess what? The committee had finished the meeting. The business case was signed off. There was no debate about the Unison questions and no discussion of about the issues raised. The Committee stated that it was not their job to comment on issues raised by the Union.
So there you go. No video and no proper report. I had a nice chat with fellow Blogger Mr Reasonable. Can you get Councillors surcharged if they don't do their job properly and it ends up costing the Taxpayer a lot of money? I hope so. I was told that Leader of the Council, Lynne Hillan wasn't there. She was in Spain on holiday yet again.
I went to the Claddagh Ring and had a pint of Guinness. That was probably the highlight of the evening.
You can read Mr Reasonables report here :-
http://reasonablenewbarnet.blogspot.com/2011/03/five-minutes-four-men-and-270-million.html
Unlike me, he made it on time. Could you make it up?
http://committeepapers.barnet.gov.uk/democracy/reports/reportdetail.asp?ReportID=10206
I turned up to the meeting with my video camera to record the meeting for posterity. Due to childcare & traffic, I arrived at 7.20pm, twenty minutes after the meeting began. Guess what? The committee had finished the meeting. The business case was signed off. There was no debate about the Unison questions and no discussion of about the issues raised. The Committee stated that it was not their job to comment on issues raised by the Union.
So there you go. No video and no proper report. I had a nice chat with fellow Blogger Mr Reasonable. Can you get Councillors surcharged if they don't do their job properly and it ends up costing the Taxpayer a lot of money? I hope so. I was told that Leader of the Council, Lynne Hillan wasn't there. She was in Spain on holiday yet again.
I went to the Claddagh Ring and had a pint of Guinness. That was probably the highlight of the evening.
You can read Mr Reasonables report here :-
http://reasonablenewbarnet.blogspot.com/2011/03/five-minutes-four-men-and-270-million.html
Unlike me, he made it on time. Could you make it up?
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