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The Lib Dem budget for Barnet

Below are details of our alternative budget.
Barnet Liberal Democrats will be putting forward an alternative Budget at the Council Meeting tomorrow (2nd March) evening
.Cllr Jack Cohen Leader of Barnet Liberal Democrats describes the Lib Dem proposals as “realistic, affordable and deliverable”
The Liberal democrat Budget contains key proposals to stimulate the local economy, cut down on [...]

Duke of Edinburgh award

Does anyone know of any project a group of 13-15 year olds who are doing their DOE bronze award could undertake. It could be something like clearing a garden. If you do please let me know.

Council meeting 26 Jan

Tonight is the full meeting of the Council. I will be speaking on the administration’s policy item whci is about improving recycling rates. The main thrust of the item is that it is better to incentivise   people to recycle by rewarding them in some way rather than taxing their polluting behaviour. I shall be [...]

Only 54

At the last Council meeting I asked how many staff were in the community protection group. The CPG is the group within the council tasked with enforcing things like dog fouling, littering and some parking offences such as parking on the zig zag lines outside a school.
There are 54 staff in the CPG. There are [...]

Off to see Spurs

I’m not a huge football fan. I normally go to a couple of Barnet matches during a season and that’s about it. However my eldest daughter has suddenly acquired an interest in Spurs and with the help of a friend who is a season ticket holder we have obtained two tickets for this afternoons match [...]

The big freeze

Firstly, happy new year! We seem to be in the longest freeze that I can remember. It has certainly caused me to cut my car usage. Barnet’s main roads are not too bad but the side roads and the pavements are very icy. I walked up to Barnet yesterday for my surgery at Chipping Barnet [...]

Tudor Park – new play area

There are plans to build a new play area in Tudor Park using funds from the playbuilder programme. You can view the proposed scheme and make make comments by following the link below.
http://www.barnet.gov.uk/index/council-democracy/consultations/playbuilder-consultation.htm

10:10 campaign

At the last Council meeting we discussed the 10:10 campaign. This is a campaign that individuals or organisations can sign up to that commits to try and cut their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. The motion for the Council to join the campaign was defeated by the Conservative majority and a much weaker piece [...]

Courier service

For a while now I’ve been concerned about the cost both environmentally and monetary of the Council’s courier service. The courier service delivers committee papers including agenda’s and minutes and any other post that comes directly to the Town Hall to councillors home addresses. At the last council meeting I asked about the cost and [...]

Full Council

Tonight’s Council meeting decended into farce. The Tories elected the new leader of the Council Lynn Hillan. They then spent too long celebrating in the break so that there was no one there to move the administration policy item and so it was not taken. When they did all return they voted down the opposition [...]