Yes, the news that 'Council officials' have decided to spend money on moving sand from the West shore to the North shore comes only about two years after Hugo and several others in here asked why they weren't doing it anyway.
Here's an idea: why don't we have - on one day a year - a special open session in which anyone from the town can ask any councillor anything at all? It's perfectly feasible. Tickets could be sold in advance for a nominal fee - say, £1.00 - and the sales would give an approximate idea of what size venue to book. Alternatively, admission could be free, but pre-registration would still be required and people could use their rate demand notices as admission tickets.
At the session, anyone could ask anything to any councillor, and this could be spontaneous, although probably some sort of pre-filtering process - ideally done by a local community group to avoid the possibility of councillors 'losing' questions they didn't want to answer - might be desirable.
There are all manner of questions that arise in here and many - like the sand issue - have answers which seem glaringly obvious, so it might be nice to know what the reasons are for the systematic prevarication which seems to pervade every aspect of council business. If this were made an annual event and attendance by all councillors mandated then I suspect good councillors would find it an opportunity while the poor ones might seize the opportunity to stand down in the future. Just a thought, anyway.