Members Allowances (EffR5)
Core Offer
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This core offer includes services that the council is legally obliged to provide. The link below provides detailed information about what is included.
Link: EffR5 - Members Allowances
This proposal will be discussed at the Efficiency and Resources scrutiny committee [PDF document] on 18 March 2016.
Related FAQs
Will Bill Dixon and Ada Burns be subject to a salary review/pay freeze?
The Chief Executive’s pay has been frozen for eight years and there has been no increase in councillors’ allowances since 2009.
Will senior managers take a cut in salary to enable more staff at lower levels to be employed?
Wages of senior staff are reviewed by external consultants to ensure they are set at the correct level to attract suitably experienced and qualified people. Their salaries are also bench marked against other councils. The numbers of senior managers is always under review, however, senior staff are needed to help with the changes and bring investment into the town. We will look again at the situation in two years’ time.
Your Say
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Core LLE12 (Indoor and Outdoor Markets) |
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Core LLE12 (Indoor and Outdoor Markets) |
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Cut Mc10 (Christmas lights) |
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Core EffR19 (Senior Management costs) |
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Cut W12 (Grounds Maintenance, Horticulture, Parks and Countryside Management) You could use the capital receipts to ensure that no cuts are needed in more important areas such as members allowances, chief officers pay etc |
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Cut W12 (Grounds Maintenance, Horticulture, Parks and Countryside Management) The people I feel for are the staff you intend to make redundant and the poor people who will have to live in Darlo, a filty, overgrown place with no services whatsoever. How many other councils have had funding cuts, yet not resorted to this state of affairs? To come to this suggests that the councillors and senior managers have gone very badly wrong somewhere. As your solution is to just cut everything, here's a few more ideas you could use. Get rid of all refuse/recycling collections. People will be able to throw their rubbish in the street and you won't be doing anything about it (fining them or cleaning it up) so that should save a good bit of money. Close all the parks and rent them out as grazing land. If you're not going to cut the grass, no-one will be able to use them anyway and at least this way you can make some money back and the goats or sheep would save on even the one token cut per year. Maximise income by charging charities and community groups for absolutely everything you can - rates, refuse etc. This way you might even manage to get rid of a few more of them, further reducing services in the borough. Why bother putting the library in the dolphin centre. Just close them both. If people want books, they can by them off amazon, if they can't afford it then they'll be able to sympathise with darlo council. When you've made all these cuts, you can reduce the number of councillors as there'll be nothing left for them to run. When you've made all the staff redundant you can sell the town hall and make a bit there. Surely somewhere you'll have a spare council house that you could convert for Ada and Bill (you could even call it the town hall to make it sound a bit grander), because you'll have no other staff left. Don't forget to raise the council tax as much as possible each year too. You obviously need the money more that the taxpayers who will soon be getting absolutely nothing in return, not even the young, old or vulnerable when you've finished. BEST IDEA YET...abolish Darlo council and go back to being part of Durham. They've made major cuts, but they've still got libraries and cut the grass, take care of the vulnerable and less fortunate |
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Core LLE20 (Street Lighting) 1. Reduce the number of Counsellors - we do not need more than one active counsellor in our or other wards. 2. Turn off the street lights at midnight - research has shown that this does not increase crime or road accidents. 3. Remove free parking from all counsel employees. |
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Core EffR5 (Members Allowances) Cutting Councillor Allowances would be a popular cut; Councillors in the 1950's and 60's were lucky to get their bus fare to the meetings after a day's hard graft. |
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FF 52k (Financial and debt advice and welfare rights services) Allowances.It is time that they stand up and be counted by waiving all or part of their allowances or resign to allow people who will act in a more responsible way. Could sponsors be found to keep the mobile library going eg for the fuel repairs etc. |
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Core LLE13 (Refuse and Recycling Collection and Waste Disposal) |
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Core LLE12 (Indoor and Outdoor Markets) Documents
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Core EffR19 (Senior Management costs) |
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Core EffR5 (Members Allowances) |
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Cut W05 (Cockerton Library) Documents
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Core EffR5 (Members Allowances) Q: When an organisation is in trouble, the cabinet itself should set an example by taking a voluntary salary sacrifice A: (Cllr Dixon) Nobody at this table, indeed no member of the council, has had an increase in their allowances since 2009. |
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Core EffR5 (Members Allowances) Q: We have a population of just 107,000. Why do we need 50+ councillors? A (Cllr Dixon): There was a boundary review around 18 months ago, by an independent body. The decision was to reduce the number of councillors from 53 to 50. That was the decision of the independent body. |
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Core EffR19 (Senior Management costs) Q: Senior management savings of £300k seems strange that is a similar figure as the saving to be made by moving the library. Q: What salary increase are all staff getting this year? Are the senior managers getting an increase? Is there a proposal for councillors to get an increase in their allowances? Perhaps they could sacrifice that. A (Cllr Harker): When recruiting people to certain positions, we pay what the going rate is. If we do not pay what the going rate is, we either don’t get someone in that role, or we find someone who is not capable of doing it. I’d far rather pay people in senior management roles less, but the reality is that’s what we’ll pay because that’s what local authorities have to pay. As the organisation shrinks in terms of the number of employees it has, we will reduce, as we have been doing, the number of managers. So they overall cost of management will reduce. In terms of staff salaries, staff at different levels of the organisation have not had inflation pay increases over a number of years. Staff have made sacrifices in terms of salaries. All staff, from 2011/12 have had no pay increase. Many staff have seen their salaries decreased in real terms. |
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Cut C05 (Cease Vulnerable Adults Floating Support) Documents
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