After yesterdays post where I was pretty critical of the council’s IT and noticing several other blogs had negative things to say about the council, I thought I would delve around for something positive to say.
The first thing is that they have managed to get their magazine “Thanet Matters” online without any noticeable errors see http://www.thanet.gov.uk/files/TDC_Thanet_Matters_Issue46.pdf it’s only available as a pdf file, something that’s a bit annoying for people with older computers, but at least unlike last time it is all legible.
Also the council have also announced that they intend to webcast the council meeting of 22nd April, something that I strongly support as it is a move to more accessible and open government, see http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council_meeting_video.aspx oddly enough they are promoting the council’s youtube channel on the same page.
This is a bit strange as they haven added any videos to it for about a year, I wonder if they are still making videos but just not putting them up, one would have thought at least one of last years big event would have appeared by now.
Next week should be an interesting one for the council, as I gather that the Conservative group are to select a new leader, I always find it interesting that the cabinet appears to select the leader and the leader appears to select the cabinet.
What the council needs for a leader is a well educated person with experience of running a large organisation, preferably at the peak of their career, unfortunately the position doesn’t attract a salary that would allow this type of person to give up their job for three years to do the job, full time.
I am hoping that the compromise of selecting a deputy leader from the best of the available talent within the conservative group will be adopted, this is not a full time job and I would say that it is the person who gets this job that could really make the difference.
I would also say that it is the selection of this post that is most likely to have some effect on the way the local Conservative groups show their intent to improve their act and could ultimately effect the general election result in in the marginal Thanet South constituency.
Oddly enough some more documents have appeared since I published the new documents last week, that predate the ones I published last week in terms of their publication date.
"What the council needs for a leader is a well educated person with experience of running a large organisation".
ReplyDeleteWe're doomed in that case.
Michael, you may be interested to know that I have it on good authority that the council sent someone earlier this week to inspect the foundations of the cliff wall behind Royal Sands development.
ReplyDeleteSurprise! surprise! they found no concrete and the wall founded on made up ground. perhaps you should put in for an FOI on their report