The Nicolson Institute
Before the new schools project planned for 2011/12....
and after the project.....
Yet I am told that £250,000 of new windows are being installed in the school this year. With one window (surely set of windows) costing £60,000.
Can anyone shed any light on this element of the Council capital programme?
and after the project.....
Yet I am told that £250,000 of new windows are being installed in the school this year. With one window (surely set of windows) costing £60,000.Can anyone shed any light on this element of the Council capital programme?
11 comments:
according to Hebrides News it is ONLY £20,000 on windows and another £11,000 for lockers....
Have a peep at the reasoning behind the first move in the proposal to demolish Daliburgh school and build a new 'improved' faciility.
Three years ago it was completely re-slated, we are now told that it will apparently cost a further £5-£6 million to upgrade, and that it is obviously cheaper to knock it down and build a new one!
Ah well, the big lie is always the easiest one.
If the council are looking to have savings on their budget lets begin in the white house itself, rather than decimating communities.
reslating was under storm damage insurance.
Anon 1:11
So, if the reslating was under storm damage insurance, where did the money from the claim for the wrecked swimming pool go?
See one of the latest headlines on hebnews that the council are to cut homecare expenses & cut back on teachers. etc. All with cost savings but not to much. How about getting rid of up to 10 of the office staff in the white house that are busy forwarding joke emails & playing around online & drinking coffee allday? That could save in excess of £200,000 a year. Its in there where the cuts need to be made not outwith the whitehouse apart from maybe at the Council depot. Their vans are dotted round the town doing nothing, you usually see two of them parked together & all they are doing it chatting to each other for ages. Arent they so hard worked?
Anon. 6:59
I 'think' you'll find that the insurance money for the wrecked swimming pool was only payable in the event of a new swimming pool being built. Which it wasn't because the council didn't allocate the additional funding required.
Anon 10.08 ; 6.59 replies
The question was somewhat rhetorical as I live in Uist, see the bare site daily, and was aware of the manipulative way in which the council opened up the possibility of a PFI swimming pool which could be built with the insurance money.
The peoples elected turnip duly pitched in with a bid for the new pool to be sited at his personal community centre, the local mafia offered the grounds of their hotel as being more suitable for the pupils, and lo! the community was effectively divided.
Net result being that the school did not have the swimming pool which was wrecked in the 2005 gale replaced under its insurance cover.
Which brings us back to the original question - where was the insurance payout for Daliburgh school swimming pool actually spent?
We have a real problem in that we are stoic. While the rest of the democracy is fighting tooth and nail for its services we seem to have a tradition of lying down. There are some real problems with the way the islands are being run but we have no critical media to comment and no 'opposition' in the Comhairle.
8.03:
I suggest you re-read my post at 6.59.
First the first photo of the Nicolson is standing and the second photo is a fake. Get it right before you right an article...
6:34
I'm not sure this Blog is really suitable for you, perhaps you ought to go and find some other playmates.
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