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Woodbridge Town Council report July 2010

…I currently have about five to six thousand left to spend and would like it to go on things that will have some lasting concrete benefit to the town, just in case there is little forthcoming next year. [...]

Farlingaye Students make a difference!

…Farlingaye students work with council officers and myself (Caroline Page) to design a much needed traffic island for [...]

You have to pay for the best?

Suffolk workers are not not highly paid as a group (ONS stas shows 40% of all workers in Suffolk are paid less than £17,000 a year – over £1000 LESS than the national average) . Except when it comes to the eye-wateringly high salaries dished out to the top execs at Suffolk County Council. Just to remind you, the Chief Executive is paid £230.000 per [...]

Woodbridge Town Council Report June 2010

At the meeting we were told by Deputy Leader that £122,000 was a tiny proportion of the annual council budget. I pointed out that £122000 may not seem a lot to the administration , but from the viewpoint of Woodbridge – where the Deben Family Centre closed for want of £50,000 – it’s a fortune.
Sadly, the Call-in was defeated: by 18 votes to [...]

EADT coverage of Suffolk CC appointing consultants without tendering

I was quite forthright about the issue

Our new government has just instituted a £500 rule which means that all public expenditure over this sum has to be publically declared – and justified. The people of Suffolk should rise up and demand that the same rule applies to their [...]