Dear Editor,
Labour-run Cheshire East are not short of money. Cheshire East is short of good management and common sense.
If the Council was managed properly there would be no need for the usual inflation busting Council Tax increases each year.
Here are just a few of the ways that our hard earned Council taxes have been frittered away:
– £20 MILLION on unpaid Council tax in three years
– £11+ MILLION on a multi storey car in the centre of Crewe that nobody asked for and few will use
– £11 MILLION spent on preparation for the Northern Leg of #HS2, which has now been cancelled
– £10+ MILLION on a #HistoryCentre in Crewe town centre
– £7 MILLION of unpaid bills of money owed to the Council
– £6 MILLION on a botched IT system
– £5 MILLION a year spent on consultants
– £4 MILLION on a Solar Farm just outside Crewe
– £1.2 MILLION on agency staff
– £1 + MILLION a year on Councillor Allowances….and that does not include the generous ‘Responsibility Allowances’.
£MILLIONS wasted on the revolving door of Chief Executives, Temporary Chief Executives and fat cat salaries.
£MILLIONS wasted on a variety of schemes on Crewe’s Lyceum Square, which were started, then dug up, or never started at all.
Yours faithfully,
Cllr Brian Silvester
Leader
Putting Crewe First
Councillors claim money and attending the fewest meetings, does that ring a bell Brian, glasshouses etc
Absolutely correct. And to make matters worse, the huge sum spent on premature preparation for HS2 was mostly wasted on consultants fees rather than something useful!
Some of the Wasted Money list may not be entirely true but there is no doubt that the Council has wasted huge amounts of money and if it was a private business as opposed to a Council which can pass these losses on to the rate payers then it would certainly be bankrupt.
Can you imagine proposing closing three refuse centres to save money and then wonder why fly tipping increases which then costs a fortune to clean up. What could be such a lovely feature in Nantwich is the River Weaver which is never maintained and currently looks totally neglected and overgrown.