Derby Council Waste

Well here we go again with his highness Cllr Harvey Jennings he forces through the refurbishment of the council house and then slashes like a mad man every service possible that were developed by Labour (and to be fair Lib Dems) when they had the control of city council. So here we go with some numbers about the refurb of council house first is the councils own words about it and figures.

We will refurbish the Council house it will cost £40million which will be repaid at £900k per year over 40 years this will save on costs of maintenance of £1.1 million a year so we will be saving £200k a year sounds good eh? but wait here comes the sting that wasn't reported or put out by council (conservative control of 1 councillor but lib dems refuse to vote) so get ready for the figures.

True cost of build will be £93million that equates to repayment figure of £2.2million a year a lot more than the £900K put out first of all. So it actually is £1.1million dearer to refurb than just maintain the building. Good old Harvey said the repayment can be bought down by selling and renting out other council buildings unfortunately he cant say when this will happen due to the economy...thats the economy that was shrinking before he decided to go ahead. Another point we have to make £23million savings due to cuts from Tory government now I may not be an accountant but can see by stopping the refurb we have made £53million saving over 40 years so we have a surplus of £30million to improve the City.

Lets carry on with the figures previous councils Lab/Tory/Libdem have made savings that go into reserves these reserves re for cuts from central gov or capital spending so we have lost £23million over 3 years from Gov. followed by the £40 million refurb is what the reserve is for so we use £63million for this the total reserve stands at £123million leaves a total of £60million for reserves more than enough dont forget previous gov asked councils to build up reserves to help them to cut deficit so the cuts wouldnt affect the public. 

The vast majority of people in Derby dont want this refurb and have never done I think our dear leader is in for an almighty shock on may 5th local polls say that Labour will win full control of council and they have vowed to stop this refurb and put the money in to the services that are due to be cut. but we shall see.

Final point that did make me laugh they are cutting funding to adult services home helps etc the spokesman said that people wouldnt have to pay, but he was asked that the shortfall would have to be made people receiving the service he said yes but they wouldn't have to pay they would have to co-fund it but its not paying ohhhhhhh nooooo not pay co-fund it.......it makes you weep.