A brand new building needing another £300,000 of our money for alterations is appalling. It's about time there was a full enquiry into this whole mess. CCBC have excelled themselves this time.
The more of these issues that arise, the clearer it becomes that CCBC paid officials in the highly lucrative senior management posts obviously regard themselves as being aboard the gravy train to end all gravy trains. From this current mess, to the state of what ought to be the premier attractions, such as (un)Happy Valley, to the continuously unavailable swimming pool. to the gym that isn't safe to be used if the air conditioning stops for a while to the interestingly converted retirements into suspiciously lucrative 'redundancies' for their own, there are really only two conclusions it seems possible to draw: either they're simply not up to the jobs for which they're very well paid or they're utterly contemptuous of the fact that they're paid by the taxpayers of the county.
The arguments advanced for paying the top management so much are always the same: these sort of amounts have to be paid to get the best people for the job. Clearly, we're not getting even adequate people for the job, so perhaps it's time to press for a formal inquiry via the Assembly into the competence of the senior paid management of CCBC. The evidence of possible incompetence or even malfeasance seems pretty clear and I agree totally that we need an inquiry.