The Argus business editor, Finn Scott-Delany, posed the question ‘Which service would you cut?’ in an article regarding the city’s £100m funding shortfall.
He went on to say that the City’s residents face having a significantly smaller council, with many services no longer delivered directly by the authority.
Unfortunately Finn did not say whether this smaller council would result in an equally smaller number of the city’s councillors who, in the last financial year, ‘earned’ over £853,000 of tax-payers money in allowances and expenses.
These ranged from the basic amount of £11,463 up to that of the top man who took home £41,755 (not forgetting the odd 76 pence!) The councillors want to know what the public think they should stop doing.
Perhaps they could make a start by stopping paying themselves so much and, at the same time, agreeing that the city really does not need over 50 of them.
Eric Waters
Ingleside Crescent,
Lancing
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