COUNCIL Tax - rise after rise, year after year. Yet we are told there is a £500,000 deficit, with no money to be found, bringing inevitable redundancies, closures or cutbacks as a result.
The only way to balance the books and maintain core services is to sacrifice an irreplacable treasured work of art, A Riverbank by LS Lowry.
Blue dustbins - without consultation £50,000 squandered on 28,000 micro-chips with no mention of the cost of the equipment needed to read, collect and store the data.
Pimhole regeneration - £392,000 short due to a public inquiry, a new form of statutory compensation for residents and incorrect estimates made at the beginning of the project.
Step forward Coun Sharon Briggs, cap in hand, at the Executive meeting and suddenly this sum can be found from the housing financial assistance budget and areas where resources are underspent (Pimhole regeneration needs extra £392,000', Bury Times, September 28).
Our' money is either there or it is not. The sale of the Lowry should be suspended and Bury's finances immediately called in' for scrutiny.
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