County council cuts 'on track'

9:30am Monday 12th March 2012 in Bicester

SAVINGS are on track, Oxfordshire County Council finance bosses have said.

Some £51.3m of the £54.3m needed to be cut this financial year has been achieved, according to councillor Jim Couchman.

Cuts include less cash for road maintenance and fewer paid staff in some libraries. The council needs to cut £119m over four years.

Related links

Comments(6)

Myron Blatz says...
11:41am Mon 12 Mar 12

So, Oxfordshire County Council has cut the money it provides for road maintenance? To be honest, I doubt if anyone will notice any 'reduction' in work carried out since our non-motorway roads must be some of the worst-maintained in Europe .... except for Albania!

Report this post »

Myron Blatz says...
11:41am Mon 12 Mar 12

So, Oxfordshire County Council has cut the money it provides for road maintenance? To be honest, I doubt if anyone will notice any 'reduction' in work carried out since our non-motorway roads must be some of the worst-maintained in Europe .... except for Albania!

Report this post »

EMBOX1 says...
12:22pm Mon 12 Mar 12

Well done on saving the money.

Why couldn't this have been done before? I hope to see two levels of local government axed - town and district councils.

There is too much bureaucracy, so chop it out and save us all a few (million) quid.

Report this post »

DoctorBob says...
8:58pm Mon 12 Mar 12

EMBOX1 wrote:
Well done on saving the money.

Why couldn't this have been done before? I hope to see two levels of local government axed - town and district councils.

There is too much bureaucracy, so chop it out and save us all a few (million) quid.
And you got your information about bureaucracy from where exactly?

Don't bother as it is patently clear you haven't got a clue what you are talking about and just like to use worn out old cliches.

I bet you sound great down the pub though.

Report this post »

Trevor Craig says...
9:24pm Mon 12 Mar 12

DoctorBob wrote:
EMBOX1 wrote:
Well done on saving the money.

Why couldn't this have been done before? I hope to see two levels of local government axed - town and district councils.

There is too much bureaucracy, so chop it out and save us all a few (million) quid.
And you got your information about bureaucracy from where exactly?

Don't bother as it is patently clear you haven't got a clue what you are talking about and just like to use worn out old cliches.

I bet you sound great down the pub though.
I agree with EMBOX1. We have a county council and five district councils all spending money on HR, finance and management etc. Just look at the non-school staff on over 50k in this document:http://www.
oxfordshire.gov.uk/c
ms/sites/default/fil
es/folders/documents
/aboutyourcouncil/co
unciltaxandfinance/a
uditandaccounts/stat
ementofaccounts2010-
11.pdf (page 52) to see how much they are spending on management that could be pooled into one unitary authority rather than lots of councils and the inevitable duplication. They would never go for it though because it would mean some of them would lose their jobs and the councillors little empires would decrease.

Report this post »

Severian says...
2:42pm Thu 15 Mar 12

And just to add salt to the wounds Cherwell District Council is to give £10m of taxpayers money to prop up the development of the "eco" town in Bicester. They are hoping that a future developer of one of the other parts of the site will refund some of this money to them.
And I thought our councils didn't have any spare cash, but I was clearly wrong.

Report this post »

click2find

About cookies

We want you to enjoy your visit to our website. That's why we use cookies to enhance your experience. By staying on our website you agree to our use of cookies. Find out more about the cookies we use.

I agree