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There are still very run down and depressing parts of French cities that need help, but the overall impression you get is that the local environment plays a key role in everyday life.
We had been persuaded to let the council do some of the external decorators, as it would be cheaper. I have been trying to get the cost so that we know how much we will be required to return to the council out of our allowances.
The reply was they didn't know because there were still meetings like the one we were at going on. Decs were not even on the agenda.
This is perhaps one reason why tenant management organisations are more efficient than councils. If we have £60,0000 for external decs we use that for external decs, money left over is ploughed back into the community. With the council they are factoring their share of the money all the way through.
It has made me somewhat cynical with other projects the council is responsible for overseeing. But to get things done we have to dance to the tune the piper chooses.
Part of the blame for this situation lies with the "overmanagerialization" that Britain (as well as other countries) has suffered. Big budget cuts have been implemented across the board, ostensibly, to increase efficiency. In reality, operations on the ground and services have been cut, whilst money going to consultants, paper pushing managers and quangos has increased, possibly ten-fold, over the last two decades or so.
Not surprisingly, these quangos and individuals make decissions that keep them in business (more paper pushing) whilst actual work, on the ground is procrastinated upon (it's too expensive, we can't afford it, we are told).
As the Financial sector has shown, we need to go back to basics: hard honest work needs to be rewarded. Hot air and thick reams of paper filled with made-up words belong in the recycling bin.
£15,000 - Feasbility study
£15,000 - Risk Assessment
£25,000 - Consultation Fees
£20,000 - Website and Publicity
£15,000 - Survey and Liasion
£9,450 - Expenses
£50 - For the planting of the 10 square metre flowerbed
This is a very good article that goes a long way to explain how we got ourselves in this mess:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090313.wcomint...
It's US based, but it can be exported to most countries where managerial claptrap has been adopted as overriding philosophy.