Tory phantom £500,000 savings is quoted as a feeble justification for £11.5m Tory Towers Folly
Posted by labourblogger on March 12, 2011
Two recent debates at Council and one examination by a Scrutiny committee have not managed to identify how Wyre Forest Where is the phantom £500,000 Savings generated by the £11.5 million Tory Towers folly? says Vi Higgs, Wyre Forest Labour
Nevertheless, I told myself I would be prepared to believe our Conservative leaders, if I could find evidence in their budgets for future years. I reasoned that, if the building is to be occupied in June 2012, there should be an extra £500,000, the savings, available for expenditure on services from the financial year 2013/14 onwards.
I consulted the budget projections for 2013/14 and 2014/15, as presented to Council on 23rd February : nowhere is there an indication of service improvements it could fund; nowhere is there the restoration of a presently-unaffordable deleted post; indeed, nowhere is this £500,000 saving even identified.
I am forced to the conclusion that this is a phantom £500,000, quoted as a feeble justification for a £11.5m folly.
Vi Higgs Wyre Forest Labour.
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