Thursday, May 28, 2009

"Instep" no more ...

Well, it was a pretty lengthy meeting - didn't finish until close on 8pm ... and yes, the vast majority of the time was taken up by Deputations and debate on the items at Section 7 (of the Agenda here), all of which had already been debated at various Committees having been sent there from Full Council :-(

Probably the most significant decision was the one at item 7.4 to close the Instep Service at Castlebrae High School - made no sense before I'd heard the debate, and made even less sense afterwards ...

... didn't stop the Administration pushing the closure through though.

Another classic example of Administration Members not knowing the detail of the budget they passed in February --- what was pretty incredible was that several of them had the audacity (maybe I should say honesty?) to basically admit this!

As I said, incredible ...

... but, sadly, incredibly depressing for all those at Castlebrae as it didn't stop the closure of a much-valued service.

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