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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
. Hundreds of thousands of pounds at the very least could be saved in an instant by making cuts in departments which are management-heavy and redeploying that money to ground services or helping shave a bit more off the debts which the council has racked up.
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You mean like scrapping the Works department when you were last in power, a Works department that had earned thousands of pounds from outside contracts and had many more orders in the pipeline, whilst maintaining the councils housing stock and public buildings, meaning that all contracts had to be tendered for by outside firms on a take it or leave it bases, when the Works department were working within the authority the money was kept in house for reinvestment