Heated debate on cuts to services dominates final council meeting

“Here is another report from this newspaper concerning the freeze on Council Tax:

"DERBYSHIRE County Council will receive nearly £3 million from the Government after announcing it will freeze council tax in 2013-14".

"Labour-run Derby City Council will not receive a grant as it plans to increase council tax by almost 2% from April next year".

http://tinyurl.com/cetfy6m”

“I hope Ramjet Bandwagon takes note of his publicist's poll findings over the brown bin tax.”

“the Telegraph poll on the "brown bin tax" has so far shown people are overwhelmingly against the £40 a year charge.

Telegraph poll:

Are you in favour of a "brown bin tax" proposed by Derby City Council?

92%Absolutely not
8%I am, yes”

“by Rob09
"The Council are having to cut services ...."

NO The Councile does not HAVE to cut services. It choses to cut services rather than cut back on its profligate spending on fancy council houses, overpaid executives, etcetera.

Like every Labour administration both local and national this rotten council plays politics with peoples lives.”

“what a joke this council is ..im not a voter as i would not want to be part of a group who say i voted for them id be ashamed . im not a conservative either but there was one thing done right when they were in power .the city was cleaner .chris poulter did an excellent job .all along embankments was litter free bins were emptied .my black bin at pressent gets enptied every 11 weeks then i have to ring up still nothing a useless machine .now i have mc glughlans number ill hound him again my black bin was last emptied on the 27/10/12 brown one over 2 years ago and they now want £40 thats a joke surely bring back poulter . there was one thing also about phillip hickson he was truthful not like bayliss lie to his constuates to get votes anti incineratoin garbage he told alvaston no incinerator then he tries to buy land on raynesway to put it there ,what a 2 faced leader total disgrace .”

“And they have only just finished spending £35m on their own plush office block!”

“@Rob09 the council has £10 million it could spend on those valuable services if it did not look to pay over the odds for the Sinfin incinerator. The fact they look to pay £25 million instead of a 30% share which would be £15 million shows how badly the council budget !”

“Interesting points Sim - lots of high gloss around at the moment

We received a refusal to answer our question regarding the proposed reduction in educational resources for children, regarding climate change. The question was if this was so that children wouldn't find out about the 172,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to be pumped into the air above them, from the proposed Derby incinerator, by burning the food waste that people would end up throwing into the blackbin,( NB The 5 yr old prototype for Derby - the incinerator in the Isle of Wight which has breached dioxin limits by 800%, is to be shut down next year) People would be forced to throw such foodwaste in the blackbin if a reduced expensive brown bin service was introduced instead and the Council have admitted that recycling rates would thus drop. Fine tenet of Sustainable Development that is.........

Motion 6 regarding this, is coercive, trying to equate keeping brown bin services with saving childrens centres - making it seem as though those dastardly brown bins would harm children's futures, if we kept them. Some sort of mistake shurely?

Derby and South Derbyshire Friends of the Earth”

“Yes but that's another 90p per week out of my pension”

“What I'd love to know, is that if the deficit is still rising, where are all these 'cuts'?

I'm guessing savings in one area means payrises in another.

In fact, I'm not guessing, I know ;) :(”