Blackburn with Darwen leader vows to spend council tax effectively

COUNCIL leader Kate Hollern last night set out her priorities for making Blackburn with Darwen a place where everybody enjoys a decent standard of living.

She set out the key priorities for the borough as she unveiled the Labour leadership’s plan for the coming three years to shape how its spends council taxpayers’ money.

Coun Hollern, right, said the priority objectives for residents are:

  •  Creating more jobs and supporting business growth;
  • Improving housing quality and building more houses;
  • Improving health and well-being;
  • Improving outcomes for our young people through education and skills;
  • Supporting and helping the most vulnerable; and
  • Making people’s money go further by supporting households in difficult times through efficient use of council tax.

She said: “We are determined to help by delivering high-quality services by making the most of the money we have.”

Comments(14)

Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
2:07pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Bring back Gordon Brown, make everybody middle class

jimpy0 says...
4:35pm Fri 31 Aug 12

lets see her smoke and mirors promises in action when people are kicked out of their houses due to bedroom tax and 20% to be found by residents on the polltax/community charge - single people are yet again to be hammered to support scroungers and pensioners living lives of luxury, smoking fags/drugs, drinking, 6 months holidaying abroad. More schemes to waste money on drug sanctuaries, single mother units, importing more foreigners the list is endless - cant see this post last too long ..................

jack daniels says...
5:26pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Under her leadership we've seen Blackburn slip into the top ten most deprived areas in England. Somehow, I can't see her having any success, as she's less funding available than she did 3yrs ago

Stuart Farquar says...
5:41pm Fri 31 Aug 12

More lies

district01 says...
5:41pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Kate: Are these objectives not already on your list?

PS: How are you getting on regarding the never seeming to end problems of street prostitution and drug dealing within Blackburn, particularly your own patch? Nothing further has been reported since these concerns were once again brought to your attention. Has anything been done and if yet why?

RUinsane says...
6:49pm Fri 31 Aug 12

So in order to spend council tax more effectively than before you must have been spending it inneffectively to begin with. You're fired.

ste.g says...
8:23pm Fri 31 Aug 12

blah blah blah,what a crock

Rumpole says...
10:57pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Creating more jobs and supporting business growth;= employing another 30 Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Outreach Workers, on top of the 30 we already employ, so that those with issues, that don't work for the council, can get counseling!

Improving housing quality and building more houses;= building new housing for larger families of the community and their extended families!

Improving health and well-being; = creating more community centers and astro turf all weather pitches so the youth of the communities can meet and play cricket or sell drugs!

Improving outcomes for our young people through education and skills;

Supporting and helping the most vulnerable; = helping council staff retain their jobs when they are obviously totally incompetent, can't do simple Math and wouldn't have a job in the real world if they were the last unemployed immigrant in the country!, and

Making people’s money go further by supporting households in difficult times through efficient use of council tax. = spending as much as we can and then robbing the CT payers by Fraud by False Misrepresentation to get more money to spend.......

Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
11:42pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58
wrote:
Bring back Gordon Brown, make everybody middle class
I'm -1 at the moment but deep down you know I'm right Gordon was the best thing you ever had. A few years back I was shopping in ASDA I got to the checkouts and was served by some young girl who just slated him in front of me. I was about to agree with her when I thought to my self this girls life has so much to gain from Gordon she is seeding the seeds of her own destruction. The Banks failed not Gordon

jack daniels says...
9:29am Sat 1 Sep 12

Rumpole wrote:
Creating more jobs and supporting business growth;= employing another 30 Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Outreach Workers, on top of the 30 we already employ, so that those with issues, that don't work for the council, can get counseling!

Improving housing quality and building more houses;= building new housing for larger families of the community and their extended families!

Improving health and well-being; = creating more community centers and astro turf all weather pitches so the youth of the communities can meet and play cricket or sell drugs!

Improving outcomes for our young people through education and skills;

Supporting and helping the most vulnerable; = helping council staff retain their jobs when they are obviously totally incompetent, can't do simple Math and wouldn't have a job in the real world if they were the last unemployed immigrant in the country!, and

Making people’s money go further by supporting households in difficult times through efficient use of council tax. = spending as much as we can and then robbing the CT payers by Fraud by False Misrepresentation to get more money to spend.......
How do you know so much about the GBT outreach team? Are 30 members of staff not enough for you?

Anyway. Would the funding for this be from charity/central government/NHS, rather than the town hall?

Can't help but think you are a bitter old queen getting her kicks complaining about the poor public sector staff who just do as they are told.

Rumpole says...
10:56am Sat 1 Sep 12

jack daniels wrote:
Rumpole wrote:
Creating more jobs and supporting business growth;= employing another 30 Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Outreach Workers, on top of the 30 we already employ, so that those with issues, that don't work for the council, can get counseling!

Improving housing quality and building more houses;= building new housing for larger families of the community and their extended families!

Improving health and well-being; = creating more community centers and astro turf all weather pitches so the youth of the communities can meet and play cricket or sell drugs!

Improving outcomes for our young people through education and skills;

Supporting and helping the most vulnerable; = helping council staff retain their jobs when they are obviously totally incompetent, can't do simple Math and wouldn't have a job in the real world if they were the last unemployed immigrant in the country!, and

Making people’s money go further by supporting households in difficult times through efficient use of council tax. = spending as much as we can and then robbing the CT payers by Fraud by False Misrepresentation to get more money to spend.......
How do you know so much about the GBT outreach team? Are 30 members of staff not enough for you?

Anyway. Would the funding for this be from charity/central government/NHS, rather than the town hall?

Can't help but think you are a bitter old queen getting her kicks complaining about the poor public sector staff who just do as they are told.
Jack Daniels, do you work at the council? If you do, get some counseling, or an education, then you could get a real job!

Actually, one of the GBT outreach team was on here crying a while back that they may be one of 30 GBT workers that may lose their jobs due to cuts so if you believe we need 30 of them, regardless who pays for them, you must be in the know about GBT's and how many there are in Blackburn needing this help outside of the council staff.

I think you'll find that the only bitter old queen is the retarded public sector worker in the CT dep. that gets their kicks off being a complete retard that can't add up or admit to making a mistake so abuses the legal process to suit themselves and then starts a personal vendetta against the person points out their mistake. Maybe they've been fiddling the CT and stealing the extra money themselves and to avoid being found out they try to make me look like the person in the wrong!

When the council start remembering that they actually work for us and have to follow rules the same as they expect us to follow rules then maybe people will have a bit more respect for them.

Maybe they will do this when my MP and the LGO get involved until then i will continue to slate them as and when the opportunity presents itself!

l m h jones says...
1:27pm Sat 1 Sep 12

dear kate come along to the next learning disability partnership board meeting and then listen to very vulnerable service users and their carers who would doubtless welcome your promises to help the most needy and vulnerable, prehaps consultation with them might actually clarify what you think needs to happen?

HairyBowls says...
1:42pm Fri 7 Sep 12

RUinsane wrote:
So in order to spend council tax more effectively than before you must have been spending it inneffectively to begin with. You're fired.
spot on!!!!!!!!

HairyBowls says...
1:48pm Fri 7 Sep 12

Same old rhetoric, same old lies...

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