The Council Leader is going to be asked some probing questions on Thursday about his project to set up a small business centre in the flood prone Bonding Warehouse. http://tinyurl.com/Bonding-warehouse-Oct-12

The Council Leader has already spent £25,000 from his “Delivery and Innovation” slush fund on the project despite the building being inaccessible for several days because of flood waters.

Hs own Labour group have ridiculed the scheme in a public “twitter” exchange.

Now Liberal Democrat Councillor Carol Runciman has tabled the following question for Thursday’s Council meeting

“Does the Council Leader agree with Councillor Semlyen, Chair of the Economic & City Development Overview and Scrutiny Committee, that the recent floods prove it would be wrong to invest £3.6 million of public money in the Bonding Warehouse?”

It looks like Councillors will at their meeting on Thursday turn down pay rises which could have been as much as 27%. http://democracy.york.gov.uk/documents/s75776/IRP%20report.pdf

They are right in the current economic climate to do so.

However they should now get on with implementing a system of performance measures which will allow electors to compare the work put in by their representatives when the next elections take place in 2015 see http://tinyurl.com/York-Councillors