How good is your council ?

[whiffey]

Here are a couple of mine:

Residents Issue: 'Tram to be extended to Pollards Hill'
What we plan to do: 'Investigate the possibility of extending the tram link to Pollards Hill'

That's 5 people on 30 grand a year making that perceptive point.

Residents Issue: 'Not enough lighting - hard to walk home from bus stop'
What we plan to do: Introduce lights on all footpaths, and armed officers coiled and ready'

Residents Issue: ' But you don't shoot them, you just give them ASBOs or a week off from school'
What we plan to do: We will be shooting dead more and more miscreants, accidentally for the most part, but they have to attend at the library every Wednesday for don't be so naughty sessions

[whiffey]

I just read another classic:

Residents Issue: There isn't enough peaceful countryside around here where we can go and relax and destroy fences and generally crap on the environment.

What we plan to do: Build more fields and public toilets with pre-configured blockages.

[beryllium]

Well? ours apparently own Toy Trucks :)

http://ashfordlibdems.org.uk/images/sites/82.1 65.40.25-40fbc5c7cda562.15945373/109.jpeg

[saxy_jag]

Employees at our local council's major concert venue have just been informed that:

a) they are not to play CDs or music of any kind in the offices, because this means that staff can't hear the phones ringing. That would be the skeleton staff, one person per three or four person office because the council refuse to recruit more staff.

b) they are not allowed to put posters on office walls or anything other than basic name signs on the doors - doodled-on pictures of the occupants are not allowed. This may give the wrong impression to visitors (who never visit the offices because meetings are held elsewhere in the venue). This now means they can't listen to demo CDs of any acts they may consider booking.

c) they may not have a broadcast-receiving televisions on the premises. This includes the TV in the staff restroom. It conveniently overlooks the numerous CCTV monitors around the building that are perfectly capable of receiving broadcasts.

And, like many council bigwigs, someone is being paid �30k or so a year to make these decisions - and they don't even work in the building!