| Topic: | Save the Libraries campaign v Council saving money. | |
| Posted by: | Jim Lawes | |
| Date/Time: | 06/02/11 21:32:00 |
| If the Council were overwhelmed by getting 4000+ returned questionnaires out of a possible 95,000 (regarding where the cuts should be), they will be mighty surprised by the protests about closing Brentford Library. These were well marshalled and stirred by Hazel,Jill and not forgetting Dawn Hardy and others. To have a hundred plus turn out on Saturday, together with Anna Ford and others, to get the BBC and ITN news teams there too is no mean feat. Great stuff. But the Labour Council have been thinking of cuttng down on the cost of having 11 Libraries in the Borough to save money. They were perhaps thinking of the Brentford,Isleworth,Osterley and Heston group and thinking of giving one the chop? Have they really withdrawn the threat? Do they know how to save £18,000,000 out of their £600,000,000 annual expenditure? The previous Conservative Administration had saved tonnes of dosh with the help of Consultants and Officers and using their expertise. Has their onward plans been aborted, having been kicked out? We don't know? I have heard from a senior Conservative Councillor this weekend that the "Officers" at the Civic Centre"(Heads of Departments presumably) have recently "come up with" lots of suggestions for saving money.Is this so? Are these to be studied and adopted? How come Brentford's Councillors have not volunteered information on this Website? Was the protest thus unnecessary? Were the local Councillors just chuckling at what fright they had perhaps..unnecessarily caused? What did they say at Saturday's protest? (I'd didn't arrive till later in the day due to illness). Was it to get in front of the cameras? The Councillors were certainly brave to show up perhaps! Thanks again to Hazel, Jill and Dawn and others. What next batch of residents will the Council be frightening when they have got potential savings sitting there just under their noses and which their eyes and wisdom can't see. |