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Although I'm assuming that it costs more to employ people on short term contracts, I agree with what you're saying Pete. It does seem that its becoming increasingly difficult to recruit people to these top positions but someone needs to do the job. I certainly think the thinking behind the appointment of the interim Education head was to bring someone new in with fresh ideas and thinking on how the Council can tackle its massive overspend which, lets face it, needs to be sorted once and for all.

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Recruiting temporary heads of departments was not what I was thinking of although managing with deputy heads would be cheaper. My remarks were directed to all the consultants that have been used. Even now some market research firm.....Lowland Market Research?.....seem to have an ongoing remit to sound out public opinion on a range of topics. Perhaps it is time to use the best opinion poll of all.....elections.....to tell the council what we think on a range of topics.....drink ban, cctv, lack of an ice rink or bowling alley etc. etc. ad infinitum

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  • 9 years later...

In my view, council cuts are a direct response to their own budget allocation that they receive from the Scottish govt.  Perhaps if the Scottish govt. weren't underspending to the tune of £350,000,000+ per annum then schools such as Scalloway JH and the Skerries school, the govt. could keep those 2 schools alone, open (at the quoted annual cost of £240,000 per year, keeping the Scalloway JH school as it was , open) for another 729 years.....Of course, that number would be a lot smaller if all the schools closed under this govt's were taken into account.  Anyway, just saying....

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^^^ The Scottish government underspend from last year is carried forward to this year, the Scottish government has no borrowing powers so it can't risk overspending its budget. In essence it's a float in case of unforseen circumstances.

Imagine the headlines if the SNP did overspend the Scottish governments budget, every newspaper and TV station in the UK would rub their hands in glee, we'd hear of nothing else.

If they get damned for budgeting responsibly, I can only imagine what would happen if the opposite were true.

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