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Feb 22 2011, 08:42 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Feb 22 2011, 05:53 PM) The Wash Common Allotment Society surveyed it's members on self-management and from memory it was like 85% who were willing to contribute to the administration and maintenance.
I'm very happy to hand over all correspondence to any enquirery, the problem has been finding any authority willing to enquire. Do you have something in mind? why are you not a committee member of the wash common allotment society anymore.
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Feb 22 2011, 08:45 PM
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QUOTE (panda @ Feb 22 2011, 08:42 PM) why are you not a committee member of the wash common allotment society anymore. He's told us on another thread. Are you a teaspoon?
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Feb 22 2011, 08:51 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Feb 22 2011, 08:19 PM) So 14,000 tax payers 'shouldn't have a say'? Like I said before, we should insist they self-manage, if it saves tax. If it saves tax. Like I said - get a campaign going.
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Feb 22 2011, 09:07 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Feb 22 2011, 08:45 PM) He's told us on another thread.
Are you a teaspoon? He told you did he
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Feb 22 2011, 09:09 PM
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My friend has mailed this, I thought you might be interested. QUOTE Hi Ifor,
as the general secretary of an allotment association, with 14 sites, over 850 plots, and approx 650 tenants ( some with more than one plot) I am interested in the running costs of allotments. Our association, Great Yarmouth & Gorleston Allotments Association Ltd, affiliated to both NSALG and the RHS, manages our association for less than 16 thousand pounds per annum. (this includes room hire for meetings / presentations, insurance costs, affiliation fees, water costs, accountants / auditors fees, postage and printing, maintenance, etc etc)
could you let me know how your council manages to spend ‘around’ 61 thousand pounds on 525 plots?
Rgds and thanks.
Tony Pitchford, Gen Sec, GY&GAALtd.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Feb 22 2011, 09:15 PM
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QUOTE (dannyboy @ Feb 22 2011, 07:36 PM) Yes but your biased. How am I biased? I have not got an allotment? I a not a politician or a councillor? I am a taxpayer and would like to know that the taxpayers are getting value for money and if allotments can be run as effectively and for less cost then I am all for it. Then if you class that as being biased then yes I must be?
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Feb 22 2011, 10:02 PM
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QUOTE (panda @ Feb 22 2011, 08:42 PM) why are you not a committee member of the wash common allotment society anymore. still waiting for an answer
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Feb 22 2011, 10:16 PM
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QUOTE (panda @ Feb 22 2011, 10:02 PM) still waiting for an answer If you have something to say, get on with it. Perhaps you are a Kenwood
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Feb 22 2011, 10:23 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Feb 22 2011, 09:39 PM) Well it's 525 tenants, not plots... I see what you did there, you believed the Council's figures didn't you. They said the average allotment is 5.06 poles in area and costs £32.62, but at £6.94 per pole a plot of 5.06 poles should cost £35.12. The Council's accounts show that they've taken £18,233 in rent, so if the average plot costs £32.62 then that suggests there are 559 plots, but if the average plot is 5.06 poles then that suggest there are 519 plots. As it happens the Council only refund outgoing tenants if they apply for a refund so some of that revenue comes from selling the same plot twice. They also said they budgeted to subsidise the service with £42,500, but actually they budgeted to subsidise by £43,200, but they happened to generate £18,200 of revenue rather than the £17,500 they'd budgeted for. Rather than these minor discrepancies it's probably more interesting to look at the £42,500 that self-management would have saved the tax-payer - and of course that doesn't include any apportionment of the several hundred thousand pounds of back-office admin and stuff that the Council didn't mention.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Feb 22 2011, 10:34 PM
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QUOTE (panda @ Feb 22 2011, 10:02 PM) still waiting for an answer I felt I was embarrassing the Committee; generally because I believed the Council would not work with the Society whilst I was involved, and specifically because the Council had served me with a notice that my flag was breaking some imagined site rule and the Committee felt unable to support me. Now, would you like to answer my question?
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Feb 22 2011, 10:38 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Feb 22 2011, 10:34 PM) I felt I was embarrassing the Committee; generally because I believed the Council would not work with the Society whilst I was involved, and specifically because the Council had served me with a notice that my flag was breaking some imagined site rule and the Committee felt unable to support me.
Now, would you like to answer my question? which one
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Feb 22 2011, 10:48 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Feb 22 2011, 10:42 PM) capitol punishment Is that what they call making someone listen to an American politician?
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