Full Council Papers now out - main agenda can be found here ...... and the two reports I referred to earlier are here and here.
The former report on the appointment of interim bus and tram Chairs will certainly not create as much outrage as the latter report on Blindcraft, which recommends its outright closure :-(
The world's oldest foundation devoted to the welfare of the blind to be closed - and 217-years of social inclusion grinds to a halt.
What a shameful moment for Edinburgh :-(
Glasgow managed to find a solution to the financial challenges this type of facility involves; and even Lib-Dem/SNP run Aberdeen eventually managed a rescue-package.
Shame on their Lib-Dem and SNP colleagues here in Edinburgh. As I alluded to back in September ... their minds were already clearly made up on this issue :-((
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Is it just me or does the report say in the financial implications section that the forecast saving of £700K from closure doesn't include the cost of redundancies, estimated at £30K per employee and therefore over £1.5M for 53 FTEs, or factory grant clawback of another £340K?
Anonymous
You're absolutely correct.
The whole proposition doesn't even make financial sense to me - never mind moral sense!
Andrew
You would think that the council would try and find procurement through Article 19 that could recycle taxpayers money into the local economy through Blindcraft and protect jobs...
Anonymous
My colleague, Lesley Hinds, has a motion on that very issue on the order paper for next Thursday.
Scroll down to item 10.6 here:
http://cpol.edinburgh.gov.uk/getdoc_ext.asp?DocId=146775
Andrew
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