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SLAP, SIC et all public property musical chairs.


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Good point - It gets public assets out of the sticky mitts of the unelected, unaccountable numpties of SCT, and (theoretically) in to the hands of publically elected publically accountable people.

 

Bad point - The (theoretically) publically elected publically accountable people have no power, their unelected, unaccountable 'Managers' do. So, new faces, new desks, but same old sh......

 

Bad Point - The unelected, unaccountable numpties of SCT get £17 odd Million more to hoard and then waste.

 

Yup, same old depressiing game or re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic going down as usual.

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if the health board had the money they would. they have had funding cuts for a number of years, they cant even fund there services they are in the red and its not likely to change.

 

 

That is odd as the last accounts show an underspend for at least the last 2 years and that the books will be balanced by the end of this financial year.

https://www.shb.scot.nhs.uk/board/documents/AnnualAccounts2017.pdf

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SIC buying SLAP seems like a very sensible move to me and provides further clarity of the relationship between the SIC and SCT

  • The SIC use a lot of buildings so won't be paying so much rent thus making a revenue saving. As owners and occupiers, they'll be free from the restrictions inherent with renting someone else's building(s)
  • Shetland Charitable Trust get a lump of capital to invest and free themselves from the responsibilities of being the landlords
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SIC buying SLAP seems like a very sensible move to me and provides further clarity of the relationship between the SIC and SCT

  • The SIC use a lot of buildings so won't be paying so much rent thus making a revenue saving. As owners and occupiers, they'll be free from the restrictions inherent with renting someone else's building(s)
  • Shetland Charitable Trust get a lump of capital to invest and free themselves from the responsibilities of being the landlords

 

Flawed argument.  SIC now will have the responsibilities of maintaining more buildings.  Besides, given the SCT's 'remit' aka the wording of the Trust Deed, I'm failing to see how it is beneficial to the Trust's recipients (us mere plebs) that selling it to 'us mere plebs' representatives (the SIC) is a good deal.  We owned it, we still owned it, and now we're buying it back.

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Yes, of course the SIC will have to resource the maintenance of the buildings. The previously owned by SLAP buildings will be subsumed into the SICs portfolio and maintenance program, and the SIC will no longer be paying an intermediary (i.e. SLAP) to do it for them. Basically, it's less of a money-go-round with more clarity and efficiencies.

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