 NTC Precept Spending, Everything you wanted to know and weren't vexatious enough to ask |
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 Mar 17 2014, 09:06 AM
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Admin Fraction is the fraction of the precept that is spent on administrative costs as opposed to operational costs (see for example here). The larger the Admin Fraction the less efficiently the council are delivering our services and the higher the tax bill for a given level of service.
The Admin Fraction comes straight off the precept leaflet so I've graphed it for the last 11 years. It tells quite a story. In 2006-07 the Admin Fraction was as low as 23.1%, and since 2008-09 the efficiency of the council has consistently deteriorated and this year the Admin Fraction is 31.2%. Each year the council delivers less services and spends more on administrative busy-work.  If the council was operating today at its 2008-09 efficiency the saving in administrative busy-work would be £73k. Hardly an insignificant sum. -------------------- Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Mar 17 2014, 07:05 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Mar 17 2014, 12:48 AM)  I doubt you are the only resident..... No but would you like to be treated the same as Simon has been for a number of years.? You would have to be a bit a of a masochists to want to try and get information and answers from a Council that does not want the precept payers knowing those answers. I am still baffled as to how the Council can get away with what they have done?  -------------------- Vexatious Candidate?
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Mar 17 2014, 08:08 PM
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Simon Kirby. There is hope still.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-human_electoral_candidates Put your hound on the voting paper. It would be fun to see a real protest vote. "And now we go to Newbury where the local Chase Candidate has been elected to the council." "A quick quote if you please"."What do you think of old NTC...?" "Rough" . And back to the studio for the weather. Which will be "rough". Seeing how the council is toothless apart from allotments and signs. Just annoy them.(again) ce |
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Mar 17 2014, 09:07 PM
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QUOTE (Cognosco @ Mar 17 2014, 07:05 PM) No but would you like to be treated the same as Simon has been for a number of years.? You would have to be a bit a of a masochists to want to try and get information and answers from a Council that does not want the precept payers knowing those answers. I am still baffled as to how the Council can get away with what they have done? Councils can operate at a profit! |
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Mar 18 2014, 04:33 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Mar 17 2014, 09:07 PM) I bet our two local Authorities are trying to book a training session over there?  -------------------- Vexatious Candidate?
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