It is worth commenting upon the other important item on the Council agenda on Thursday which was the Council Plan
The Council Plan is supposed to be a detailed and 'overarching business plan' which is a 'key part of the budget and policy framework' for the Council and its administration. In essence this is the bit written by the Tory cabinet themselves and by which you, the taxpaying public, are supposed to be holding our Tories to account.
No you really should (please click); remember this is a Cabinet spending millions of pounds of your money and this is the culmination of their political endeavours. This is a document in the past with key metrics, key targets and ambitious political objectives for our area.
This is the most anodyne document that you will ever read; devoid of any meaningful and measurable metrics with which to hold the Council to account in a year of cuts. This is of course the point; for if the statistics get worse there is no obligation on anyone do anything whatsoever about it.
Medway Council; an organision with a turnover into the multiple hundreds of millions of your money; your taxpayers money.
If I were a Tory backbencher I would be insulted that a collection of 35 intelligent adults could not have sat down and cobbled together something an average A-level politics class could have sat down and done better.
There is nothing on fiscal credibility or dealing with the Council tax liability specifically. Surely one we have all identified needs dealing with?!
Please find below some of the choicest parts of the cabinet 'overarching business plan' and make your own judgement about credibility.
p.s. tbc (means to be confirmed). ?!
This document lacks any ambition for Medway.
It has no targets, no ambitions, no teeth and is a recipe for inaction. It is not worthy of being an overarching business plan. There is plenty in there that is the preseve of the NHS and Police and arguably not the Council.
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