£90,000 well spent? Options

[Biker1]

It's about £8,000.00 per year which works out about £27.00 per event, which doesn't seem outrageous to me.

Packet of digestives from Tesco and some tea bags??
Hospitality at meetings at the company I worked for were banned shorty after privatisation!

[On the edge]

Packet of digestives from Tesco and some tea bags??
Hospitality at meetings at the company I worked for were banned shorty after privatisation!

...and in the Board Room?

[Andy Capp]

Packet of digestives from Tesco and some tea bags??

...and someone to go and get it, a water boiler, cutlery, someone to serve it at often unsocial hours and clean up afterwards. Put another way, I wouldn't do it for £27.00.

Hospitality at meetings at the company I worked for were banned shorty after privatisation!

That may be the case, but it is hard enough to get people to go to these meetings as it is, just making them more unattractive seems counter productive.

[Biker1]

That may be the case, but it is hard enough to get people to go to these meetings as it is, just making them more unattractive seems counter productive.

11 Grand just to get people to attend meetings? Hmmm.
I am sure if they really wanted to be there they could go without??

[Andy Capp]

11 Grand just to get people to attend meetings? Hmmm.
I am sure if they really wanted to be there they could go without??

It isn't £11,000.00; it's more like £8,000.00 and I didn't say we should spend £11,000.00 to get them to attend meetings. That is your twist on my point.

[Biker1]

It isn't £11,000.00; it's more like £8,000.00 and I didn't say we should spend £11,000.00 to get them to attend meetings. That is your twist on my point.

Not really.
You said it was hard to get them to attend for some reason so I assume from that you are inferring that the refreshments tempt them there by making it "more attractive".
I am saying that if tea and biscuits is needed to temp them to attend then something is wrong??

[Andy Capp]

Not really.
You said it was hard to get them to attend for some reason so I assume from that you are inferring that the refreshments tempt them there by making it "more attractive".
I am saying that if tea and biscuits is needed to temp them to attend then something is wrong??

I am saying we are in danger of being too miserly for our democracy's own good. I am not saying we need to supply tea and biscuits to tempt them to go, that is your spin. I inferred that an average of £27.00 per meeting is spent and if true I don't see that as a gross extravagance. Whether or not they should have it for free in the first place is a more valid argument, but that wasn't your original complaint I responded to.

Your original post was to suggest they were paying too much and I contested that is not the case; I wouldn't do it for ~£27.00 a go. You also miscalculated the cost per year too (according to the report that is).