Question 8: Has there been a 'unit' of some kind established and if so what is its specific purpose and objectives and what personnel have been employed from within the budget?
Response: A unit has been created (as a result of the Council report referred to previously) with a senior officer appointed to work with relevant expert advice and the Council to prepare a strategy and plan to deliver cultural and economic outcomes.
MY RESPONSE: Again, the question was addressed to the Aldermen individually and collectively and not management. However, if the unit is purposeful, and has been structured strategically, and is operating on “expert advice” it is more than puzzling that ratepayers, the funders of the unit, are unable to be provided with an articulation of these things.
Indeed, it might well be the case that aldermen are not fully aware of these things neither might they have sought this specific advice in order that they might share it with their constituents – thus the apparent necessity to rely upon management to field questions directed to them.
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