Staffordshire County Council Office buildings - Wrong choices?

[John Marwood]

Forth Bridge has permanent paint now so this is officially perpetual

 

[United57]

" Staffordshire County Council
has recently completed a new head office with biomass boiler
."

Biomass was all the rage but there is a doubt about it now.

 

[United57]

I made an FOI request to see the business case for this development on 10th March 2012. On 18th July (well ouside the FOI response deadline) I was forwarded a heavily redacted copy of the Cabinet meeting minutes from April 2009. I pointed out that this was not the document requested and was told "the information provided was identified as the business case and supplied by the relevent service area". Further correspondence with the Senior Access to Information Officer has been ignored.
So, not sure whether it is a case of officer incompetence who can't actually find a document called Tipping Street Business Case or whether it's member refusal to release the information. Either way, transparency is obviously not high up the agenda on this one............unless of course they have mislaid the cigarette packet the sums were calculated on.

Incidentally, the costs identified above regarding the prestigious loo of the year award only relate to the awards night booze up attended by the service senior managers and invited guests - you have to pay to have your loo inspected in the first place so the costs of this jolly exceed the above figures by some considerable amount.

The Business case ( benefits estimates need value etc) should be the first of the documents. Then from that there should be lots more documents. A project of that size would require more documents reports etc. This is a copy of another councils OBC http://www.google.co.uk/#fp=2332ad6da73a67be&q=business+case+for+a+new+buildings nothing redacted.

 

[John Marwood]

Oh Yey , Oh Yey, Oh Yey

I hereby declare that the Staffordshire County Council Pension Fund is in debt to the sum of...

Eight Hundred and Nine Million, Six Hundred and Eighty Three thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty Pounds and Forty Nine Pence

That is all

 

[Sir BoD]

Oh Yey , Oh Yey, Oh Yey

I hereby declare that the Staffordshire County Council Pension Fund is in debt to the sum of...

Eight Hundred and Nine Million, Six Hundred and Eighty Three thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty Pounds and Forty Nine Pence

That is all

Is there a pension fund that isn't? That's a genuine question that I shall now be questioning Google. I'll be right back.

 

[Sir BoD]

Is there a pension fund that isn't? That's a genuine question that I shall now be questioning Google. I'll be right back.

Yes, is the answer.

 

[Withnail]

I've just calculated that you could buy Twenty One Million, Three Hundred and Seven thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty Eight 3m aluminium scaffold tubes, drift tested to BS1139, with that kind of money.

 

[John Marwood]

I've just calculated that you could buy Twenty One Million, Three Hundred and Seven thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty Eight 3m aluminium scaffold tubes, drift tested to BS1139, with that kind of money.

Does that include a 40% negotiated discount?

 

[Vespa-NL]

Shouldn't the scaffolding be to EN74 standard?
But then again SCC is always running after the facts...

 

[PPPPPP]

More in Newsletter about true cost of Scaffold Place. Any FoI news?

 

[hop]

Is there a pension fund that isn't? That's a genuine question that I shall now be questioning Google. I'll be right back.

Yes a defined benefit fund (the vast majority of the private sector)

 

[John Marwood]

 

[Telephone]

Business transformation sponsored by Capita - making shed loads of cash from running Staffordshire County Council. Council of the year sponsored by Zurich, making shed loads of money being the County Councils insurer of choice.......................hmmmmmm methinks we're in with a shout.