It’s £50 to become an Aston Villa member. It’s £3,450 to join Soho House. Life membership of the MCC can be as little as £7,000. A subscription to the County Councils Network costs £30,000 while the society of county treasurers is a more modest £4,500, at least according to the latest monthly spending figures for Worcestershire County Council.
Worcestershire (£600 million in debt) is one of 37 local authorities in the County Councils Network, which says it is ‘one of the most influential organisation (sic) in local government’
No doubt the minority Reform administration won’t sacrifice Worcestershire’s membership for the sake of a mere £30k when, in July, they spent £59,000 on seeds and plants, £27,000 on legal fees, not to mention grants of £100,000 to Boundless Outdoors Ltd, £41,000 to Workpays Ltd and £4,740 to Everybody Dancing.
The county’s taxpayers laid out £375,000 to Matrix SCM Ltd, who ‘revolutionise the way employers attract, recruit and manage’ temporary staff on top of the £59,000 paid to Matchtech Group Ltd, ‘a STEM recruitment specialist, with over 40 years' experience in successfully matching STEM professionals with hiring employers in multiple sectors’.
The county paid Oxford Innovation, which ‘help towns, regions and communities to flourish by providing the support that encourages entrepreneurs and small businesses to start-up and to scale up’, £51,000 in July and spent £101,000 with Civica on computer maintenance and support.
Of the £88,000 spent on county council credit cards in July, £13,068 went to Amazon, £7,634 to Airbnb, £4,223 to Argos, £2,817 to Morrison, £2,396 to Asda, £2,043 to Currys but a frugal £97 to Waitrose.
Council tax in Worcestershire rose 4.99 per cent this year (0.01 per cent below the legal maximum).
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25425708.reform-finance-chief-councils-new-deputy-leader/
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