Conservatives Waste and Tax
The Tories have refused to cut waste at County Hall when confronted in the budget debate with the need for much deeper reductions in costs.
Lib Dem say: ‘The Tories are boasting that they have made £17.4 million efficiency savings. But at a time of deep recession it should not be too difficult. Suppliers know full well that everybody is reducing margins and will be willing to offer much keener prices.
‘We have proposed that an extra £3 million be saved by reducing procurement costs especially in regard to Hertfordshire Highways, £3.75 million be saved from reducing staff numbers and £600,000 saved from reducing the endless stream of glossy publications pouring out of County Hall which are not being read by anyone.
Hitchin Lib Dem Paul Clark says”Yet again inflation busting Council Tax bills from our Conservatives Councils will be dropping through our letter boxes soon. Services will be reduced and the bureaucratic paper work will no doubt increase with no help to residents or our troubled local economy.
Hitchin is also being targeted by the Tories further as they look to hike the carparking charges in Hitchin & Letchworth while leaving other areas unaffected. This is wrong and Lib Dems on the District Council fought to get this reversed but the Conservatives voted to impose the increased Tax Pain.
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