Can't get the staff

By Adrian Pearson on Oct 3, 08 05:06 PM

Despite doubtlessly owning a calendar with the dates of council meetings on them, the staff at Newcastle Council seem to be having a problem getting reports ready.

At last night's full council meeting the Labour opposition refused at first to back a preliminary health report.

As Nick Forbes rightly pointed out, surely it would be a lapse in judgement for any authority to approve a report which includes the lines "the programme involves XXXXXX" and promotes aims which "coincide closely with those of Newcastle's Sustainable Communities Strategy [add some detail]".

The Libs insist it is early days and the report is just a taste, so passed it was.

But wait, what's next? A report from officers urging council to back a crime strategy it has not yet seen? By now the chamber was for once united in its scorn.

Perhaps the staff are just assuming no one reads these things anyway?

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