When inflation is around 1%, why should councils feel that they are entitled to increase their bills to us, their employers, by 3%?
They are shouting how well they are doing. I don't think they are doing well enough.
The solution:
1. councils are still hugely wasteful - this waste must be eliminated.
2. councils still spend money on minority services that most of the electorate would not support - stop providing these services.
3. the terms and conditions of its employees are better than the private sector and this costs - keep terms and conditions in line with the private section.
4. employee ineffectiveness in forms of extended sickness and poor performance is endemic - apply private sector measures.
4. political correctness is chased and implemented - common sense must be reinstated.
Implement these and councils could save 25% of the expenditure.
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i'm guessing the 25% figure is a gut-feel estimate, but either way, i admit that whenever i think about taxes, i think about my use of the roads, footpaths, and parks; the health & education services; the bin men; ...and then i start running out.
ReplyDeletewhat is it that the council do other than these things?
disaster recovery planning and readiness, i guess. fire & police of course. but what are the minority services you mention?
i'm wondering whether some basic (albeit still necessarily complex) financial model could be formulated that could demonstrate this better for lobbying purposes?
currently I do not have more to back this up other than:
ReplyDelete1. talking to council workers who complain of waste and "politically correct" but stupid use of council funds.
2. talking to people who have to work this ineffective council employees who go off sick when they are not performing, are not disciplined when not performing, do not have an effective replacement policy when they are not performing.
3. unfunded council pensions.
4. when council services are offered out to the private sector the cost of delivering the service comes down by about 25%
So, employment costs (for the same number of effective people) could easily be reduced by 25%. Services delivered by councils could also be reduced by 25% by using private contractors. On top of all that, we could stop some politically correct wasteful schemes.
All together we could save 25%.