For how much longer do the council taxpayers of this so-called "place to be" have to fund the excesses of Brighton and Hove City Council's chief executive, David Panter?
His pay increase of £25,000 per year is more than the average worker earns in this city.
His corporate entertaining bill of £5,000 is probably more than a waiter earns in the fashionable and expensive places he chooses to entertain - using my money and yours.
I belong to a residents' association and Mr Panter came last year as a guest speaker at one of our quarterly meetings.
I asked him at the time when repairs and restoration would start on the birdcage bandstand on Brighton seafront.
He assured us it would begin in Spring 2003. It is now September and nothing has been done. Will it survive the high winds of the approaching winter?
His restaurant bills alone could have paid for that much-needed restoration.
Meanwhile, the pavements are strewn with rubbish, nothing gets repaired and I have to fund his lifestyle.
-Michael Robins, Hove
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