Bludragonfly 10 #121 Posted January 10, 2015 I thought they had highly paid executives to make these decisions , rather than passing the buck to us commoners They are 'consulting' with us minions because they have to, by law. Whether they will take any notice of the suggestions is another matter altogether Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
No User Name 10 #122 Posted January 10, 2015 Isn't introducing initiatives like more traffic lights to cause congestion what council planners get their bonuses for? Council employees getting bonuses? Behave. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
annbaker 10 #123 Posted January 10, 2015 Been told that most of floors 4-6 are empty but the rest is inhabited. Makes sense to move into a building you own rather than pay rent on loads. Interesting the 3 biggest floors still vacant - it gets smaller each floor you go up beyond level 6. If they still have other buildings across Sheffield and there's enough room in Moorfoot it does make more sense to get rid of the others and fill Moorfoot. That may well be their long term plan as if the other holdings they have are on leases (don't know if they are) then if they broke the lease early the financial penalties may be cost prohibitive to do so. That's pretty much why we held on to it for so long even tho staff numbers were seriously dwindling in Sheffield over a number of years. ---------- Post added 10-01-2015 at 15:47 ---------- They aren't going to find £60m from one place so they should be looking across the services they provide as a whole. That's what Govt depts have had to do. They don't need consultants as it's largely common sense. There are savings that can be made without disrupting services if people sit down and take a hard look at the way they do things e.g. internal processes such as processing paper - how many people are involved, do they all need to be, do they even need the piece of paper to start with, can several different ones be combined into a common form, how much use do they make of digitial media (for those who could contact them that way) etc etc. Small amounts of savings collectively across the piece do add up. If Govt depts can do it then so can councils. Whether they can achieve £60m worth who can tell but this isn't something that's going to go away anytime soon because they'll have more savings to achieve year on year going forward. No bad thing as the public should get more for their money Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
the_bloke 17 #124 Posted January 10, 2015 Currently five or six members of management in the Social Care sector at SCC are currently suspended for neglect; not of the people they are looking after, but neglect of the units they are supposed to be managing, including funding. The Social Care sector has a flexi system for all employees, a pool of people who can be contacted if a shift needs covering. Bank in other words. It was run so badly that a sizable portion of employees stopped trying to use it, and now SCC has to use agency staff instead. (In case you wonder, they stopped staff from picking up un-staffed shifts on their own units when rotas were made public and decided a text based free for all system, asking for shift cover 12 hours before the shift which was known to be unstaffed two weeks before, was a better idea) So that's more money needed to cover the work of those suspended and to pay agency workers due to managerial incompetence. This is where SCC hemorrhages money, and it's only two examples. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
nannyogg 10 #125 Posted January 11, 2015 Perhaps they could start by collecting unpaid council tax? That would account for about half! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
No User Name 10 #126 Posted January 11, 2015 Perhaps they could start by collecting unpaid council tax? That would account for about half! If only it was so easy. Once collected, arrears occur again. Plus it costs money to collect. Every area has a council tax debt, you make it sound like it only happens here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
bigfat_rich 10 #127 Posted January 11, 2015 I think they need to pay experts to work out where savings could be made. Perhaps a few ideas along these lines? - cut any pay enhancements for anyone earning less than 20k per annum - sack all lolipop people, especially the ones who expect me to stop. - sack a few frontline staff - put any new staff on zero hours contracts - increase bonuses for those at the top. Incentives such as more sackings = bigger bonuses - shut swimming pools and librarys just a few ideas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Penistone999 10 #128 Posted January 11, 2015 I think they need to pay experts to work out where savings could be made. Perhaps a few ideas along these lines? - cut any pay enhancements for anyone earning less than 20k per annum - sack all lolipop people, especially the ones who expect me to stop. - sack a few frontline staff - put any new staff on zero hours contracts - increase bonuses for those at the top. Incentives such as more sackings = bigger bonuses - shut swimming pools and librarys just a few ideas Dont you think sheffield council wastes enough money on consultants as it is. if they stopped paying these people to state the obvious they would save a fortune. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jonny5 10 #129 Posted January 11, 2015 I think they need to pay experts to work out where savings could be made. Perhaps a few ideas along these lines? - cut any pay enhancements for anyone earning less than 20k per annum - sack all lolipop people, especially the ones who expect me to stop. - sack a few frontline staff - put any new staff on zero hours contracts - increase bonuses for those at the top. Incentives such as more sackings = bigger bonuses - shut swimming pools and librarys just a few ideas You forget about doing away with grit bins and gritting especially in the areas where the Labour vote is less than 99% Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Norseman 10 #130 Posted January 12, 2015 I thought they had highly paid executives to make these decisions , rather than passing the buck to us commoners They do, they're called highly paid counsellors! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
No User Name 10 #131 Posted January 12, 2015 They do, they're called highly paid counsellors! Lol how much do you think a bog standard counsellor gets? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
JFKvsNixon 10 #132 Posted January 12, 2015 They do, they're called highly paid counsellors! What is the rate of pay for councillors then? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...