Suzanne Fletcher's Blog

Trying to juggle budgets is never easy, and my maths ability is not great when the figures are on a spread sheet.  However, the list of improvements that our residents are asking for in the ward comes to at least £230,000.  All of them are good suggestions, and some have been waiting 30 years and more to be done.  Most should have been done when the houses were built, and indeed some were promised by the Council to be done.  However as Councillors we have £13,000 to spend in this financial year on our "Small Environmental Improvement Budget".  You don't have to be very good at sums to work out that it will take a VERY long time to work through the list!