Southend Council approves £10million cuts (From Southend Standard)
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Southend Council approves £10million cuts
11:00pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in Echo News
LIVE: Southend Council budget
SOUTHEND Council has approved £10million cuts for the next financial year.
After a fraught four hour debate, councillors voted 32 to 16 to pass the suggestions put forward by the ruling Tory party.
A raft of amendments posed by the opposition, which included keeping the pier open throughout the winter and retaining free black bin bags, were earlier rejected by just six votes.
Airshow campaigners left disappointed as the annual show's demise was confirmed as a formality.
See how the evening unfolded on the feed below.
LIVE: Southend budget meeting
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Comments(10)
shoeburyden
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11:02pm Thu 28 Feb 13
Carnabackable wrote:just for 2 days of the year..we have it 365 days now from the airport as loads of new routes are given. YIPEE
YIPEE, no more noise pollution from those horrid jets
Carnabackable
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11:08pm Thu 28 Feb 13
Carnabackable
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11:20pm Thu 28 Feb 13
For it will be no more, it's gotto go go.
Byeseebye to the old black bin bags
Hello to the blue, for yer old loved, glad rags.
Byeseebye to the spy car moaners
they're out n about catching yellow line roamers.
Nebs
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11:55pm Thu 28 Feb 13
Mike Smith
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12:16am Fri 1 Mar 13
We are on a frightening "tunnel of fear" journey this year. Just wait and see what happens when services are cut, and those who cannot complain start to suffer.
Bosniavet
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7:44am Fri 1 Mar 13
The much-publicised threatened cuts to adult & elderly care (including, I believe the closure/privatisatio
n of at least one council-run home) are worrying to say the least. However, I need to study the budget in more detail before I can comment further on this issue.
The ending of free black bags for all may not seem to be of great importance, but I feel it is. I fear that many people will use their existing stock of pink recycling bags for general waste (I understand these will still be distributed free as well), meaning that neither the general or recycling waste teams will collect them, resulting in rubbish being left on the streets, attracting vermin of various forms. I can also see the possibility of "jobsworths" refusing to collect any waste that may be left in other bags, such as carrier bags, resulting in the same situation. I'm not saying that we must keep free black sacks, but it would be nice, merely that we need to ensure this doesn't cause a build up of uncollected waste on ours streets.
Like others, I think this is only the beginning of what will be a very painful process for the residents of Southend.
Muttles
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8:29am Fri 1 Mar 13
GentleGiant
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9:27am Fri 1 Mar 13
Pink bags, I can understand.
Maybe Southend, should become part of Essex again and stop being a unitary authority?
Carnabackable
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9:44am Fri 1 Mar 13
Nebs wrote:It would have been 17 million cuts, had the council not been increased...
If there are £10,000,000 cuts then why is our council tax going up?
Carnabackable says...
10:54pm Thu 28 Feb 13