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Full Council - Budget
Tuesday, 20th February, 2018 2.00 pm
Papers: https://democracy.bristol.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=142&MId=2705
0:00:00 Agenda Item 01 - Welcome and safety information
0:02:40 Agenda Item 02 - Apologies for absence
0:03:11 Agenda Item 03 - Minutes of previous meeting
0:03:36 Agenda Item 04 - Declarations of interest
0:04:26 Agenda Item 05 - Lord Mayor's business
0:05:34 Agenda Item 06 - Public petitions and written statements
0:10:54 Agenda Item 07 - Corporate Strategy 2018-2023
0:29:13 Agenda Item 08 - 2018-19 Budget report
A
Good
afternoon
everybody
and
welcome
to
this
year's
budget
meeting,
we
start
off
with
agenda
item
one
time,
I'm
very
pleased
to
see
you
all.
First
of
all,
we've
got
the
emergency
evacuation
procedure
and
the
contact
in
the
chamber.
First
of
all,
the
emergency
evacuation
is
on
the
screen
conduct
in
the
chamber
as
Lord
Mayor
I
am
given
the
responsibility
to
run
this
meeting
in
an
orderly
and
respectful
manner.
On
behalf
of
the
full
council,
it
is,
of
course,
absolutely
appropriate
for
members
of
the
public
to
be
able
to
attend
and
to
observe
the
meeting.
A
This
is
a
chamber
in
which
a
variety
of
opinions
and
views
about
issues
will
be
held
and
expressed,
and
rightly
so,
can
I.
Just
please
remind
everybody
here
today
that
I
do
expect
peace,
that
everybody
here
will
behave
with
jus
courtesy,
tolerance
and
respect
for
one
another's
views
and
will
conduct
themselves
in
a
reasonable
way.
Thank
you.
I.
A
A
A
A
Declarations
of
interest
I
would
remind
members
that
the
Audit
Committee
has
overseen
and
granted
dispensations
to
the
mayor
and
councillors
in
relation
to
disclosable
pecuniary
interests
to
enable
them
to
participate
and
vote
at
today's
meeting
can
I.
Please
ask
whether
any
councillors
have
any
further
items
to
declare
regarding
items
on
the
agenda.
A
The
next
item
on
the
agenda
is
number
5,
the
Lord
mayors
business
so
I'm
just
going
to
tell
you
a
little
story,
and
it
goes
back
to
the
Civil
War
when
the
when
the
Parliament
in
London
required
the
council
in
Bristol
to
make
a
decision,
and
they
were
shilly-shallying.
They
wouldn't
do
so
as
if
the
next
council
meeting
unbeknown
to
the
councilors
agents
of
the
Parliament,
came
down
to
Bristol
and
they
took
all
the
chamber
pots
out
of
the
chamber
chamber
pots
in
those
days
was
the
same
as
I
lose
today.
A
A
Public
petitions
and
written
public
statements
under
the
Constitution
there
is
no
provision
for
public
forum
at
the
budget
meeting.
However,
as
indicated
on
the
agenda,
I
agree
that
positions
and
written
statements
about
the
budget
and
reports
on
this
agenda
could
be
submitted
to
the
meeting.
Details
of
all
the
petitions
and
statements
received
by
the
deadline
have
been
circulated.
A
Three
petitions
and
five
written
statements
were
received
as
also
indicated
on
the
agenda.
It
is
not
intended
that
any
statements
will
be
presented
at
today's
meeting
and
I.
Now,
accordingly,
ask
full
council
to
note
the
statements
received.
I
will,
however,
allow
the
petitions
received
to
be
presented.
The
respective
petition
organizers
are
asked
to
briefly
state
the
aims
of
the
petitions
and
to
confirm
the
final
number
of
signatures,
and
there
must
not
be
more
than
one
minute.
A
C
Well,
six
months
ago,
Marvin
wreaths
were
leading
a
demonstration
of
thousands
of
people
against
the
cuts
said
that
Bristol
was
a
breaking
point,
but
since
then,
it's
gotten
worse
and
another
35
million
pounds
of
cuts
are
due
to
be
voted
on
today
and
what
the
Bristol
and
district
antique
Arts
Alliance
says
is:
don't
let
that
demonstration
be
an
empty
gesture.
Now
is
the
time
to
act
on
your
words
and
no
cuts
budget
is
possible
and
can
be
legal.
You
have
reserves.
C
You
have
in
fact
reserves
that
you
are
using,
on
this
occasion
better
to
use
them
as
part
of
a
consistent
anti
cut
strategy.
Take
a
stand
against
the
Tories.
Don't
carry
out
their
cuts.
We
have
here
a
petition
of
over
800
people
calling
on
you
to
do
that.
You
have
members
of
your
own
party,
calling
you
to
do
that.
Bristol
is
beyond
breaking
point
now.
The
people
of
this
city
are
suffering
and
the
decisions
that
you
need
to
take
are
to
stand
up
for
us.
C
Listen
to
the
people
in
this
city
and
not
to
the
threats
and
demands
of
the
Tory
government
and
I
say
also
to
the
councillors.
You
don't
have
to
go
along
with
this
vote,
not
just
for
small
amendments
around
the
edge
of
the
budget,
but
put
forwards
amendments
for
a
complete,
no
cuts
budget
to
save
the
services
that
this
city
needs.
Thinking.
D
One
year
on,
and
we
have
a
new
corporate
strategy
tough
times
and
no
hope
for
people
on
the
outskirts
of
the
city.
Heart
Cleophas
felt
let
down
with
broken
promises.
What
was
the
point
of
a
consultation?
If
you
don't
listen
to
the
concerns
of
local
people?
How
are
you
caring
by
shutting
down
local
services?
People
need
to
talk
to
a
human,
not
a
machine
since
science
eyes,
closed
more
tenants
are
in
rent
arrears
and
do
not
know
where
to
turn
for
help.
D
These
are
the
most
vulnerable
who
relate
from
hand
to
mouth,
and
it
will
go
from
bad
to
worse
when
you
never
saw
creditors
rule
done
so.
Let's
go
back
to
local
surfaces
face
to
face,
affects
rent
machine
and
free
council
telephones.
This
will
really
help
social
isolation,
improve
well-being
and
belonging
in
the
community,
easy
and
safe
to
get
to
and
does
not
cost
money.
E
A
A
F
You,
my
loyal
man.
The
corporate
strategy
is
the
document
which
embeds
the
mayor
and
the
administration's
vision
into
the
organization
and
through
everything
it
does,
it
shows
which
way
the
council
is
pointing
and
why
we
believe
that
direction
is
important
from
this.
The
director
of
business
plans
will
all
point
in
the
directions
that
the
corporate
strategy
defines
has
been
created
with
the
one
city
plan
in
mind,
as
the
council's
key
component
of
that
plan,
something
that
with
our
partners,
will
set
Bristol's
direction
for
many
many
years
to
come.
F
The
corporate
strategy
promotes
more
empowered
communities,
an
agenda
which
will
require
action
from
community
groups
and
a
wide
range
of
individuals
and
organizations
alongside
the
council.
In
order
to
be
successful,
successful
implementation
of
our
strategy
as
part
of
the
wider
one
city
plan
will
help
us
a
tackle
inequality,
help
us
build
resilience
and
independence
and
help
support
people
through
targeted
early
interventions,
rather
than
sweeping
up
problems
after
they
occur
with
well-being.
F
As
one
of
its
strategic
themes,
we
have
put
a
strong
emphasis
on
health,
including
a
health
in
all
policies
approach
which
will
help
improve
public
health.
We
make
explicit
commitments
to
minimize
in
our
environmental
impact
and
put
in
the
city,
on
course,
to
be
run
entirely
on
clean
energy
by
2050,
along
with
implicit
sustainability
improvements,
for
example,
in
commitments
to
resilience
and
in
improving
air
quality,
fairness
and
equality,
our
golden
threads
running
throughout
the
corporate
strategy,
particularly
in
commitments
and
their
fair
and
inclusive
theme
and
within
our
principles.
F
H
A
lot
of
it
seems
a
little
deja
vu.
I
should
have
read
a
lot
of
the
sentiments
before
that.
There
are
some
elements
to
it
that
I
do
like
and
I
and
I
would
approve
of,
for
example,
I'd,
look
on
page
28
if
you're
talking
about
how
you're
going
to
attract
investment
into
green,
sustainable
energies,
I
would
suggest
possibly
look
at
Swindon
where
they're
looking
they're
by
metal
Isis,
and
they
dress
them
up
quite
well
to
unlock
renewable
energy.
But
then
I
got
into
some
of
the
detail,
and
this
is
why
I
have
some
problems.
H
First
of
all,
I
found
it's
strange,
but
possibly
not
surprising,
that
a
lot
of
the
content
and
evidence
seems
to
be
lifted
straight
from
a
select
group
of
think
tanks
of
one
particular
spectrum.
That's
probably
not
that
surprising,
you
might
say,
but
they
might
find
it
hard
to
actually
match
the
content
of
this
and,
for
example,
other
one
I
want
to
pull
you
it's
number
15,
and
this
is
a
Children's
Centres,
where
actually
the
care
I
have
to
privately
of
charity,
run.
H
Children's
centers
in
my
ward
and
there
aren't
you
getting
a
very
raw
deal
from
council
funding
above
and
beyond
what
the
reduction
in
central
funding
might
be
because
of
the
way
that
we
look
at
them
and
I
think
that
actually,
if
we
want
to
provide
services
like
this,
we're
going
to
need
to
look
at
the
charity
sector.
But
if
that
charitable
sector
is
going
to
get
a
raw
deal,
why
would
we
do
it?
H
So
I've
questioned
how
we're
going
to
deliver
that
I
would
question
when
it
comes
to
things
like
the
libraries
we
wanted
to
come
a
a
city
of
culture,
and
yet
that's
that's
a
wonderful
aspiration.
We
all
want
to
continue
to
the
City
of
Culture,
and
yet
we
seem
to
be
closing
17
libraries.
Now
we
didn't
have
that
vote.
We
were
going
to
look
at
the
mutualization
when
to
keep
them
open
and
now
that
seems
to
potentially
being
rowed
back
and
we're
not
quite
sure,
what's
happening
there.
H
So
I
find
it
hard
to
match
the
sentiment
to
the
action.
We
then
think
about
how
we
want
to
have
access
to
parks
and
green
spaces,
and
I
probably
touch
on
this
again
later
on,
but
I,
don't
think
the
way
we're
planning
to
fund
parks
is
going
to
work
at
all,
I
simply
don't
believe
you
do
it
so
a
gamified
carb
to
match
the
words
to
the
actions
that
you're
going
to
do.
I.
H
Think
the
corporate
strategy
is
all
well
and
good,
but
if
it's
only
going
to
be
a
document
that
sits
up
in
the
ether
and
we're
gonna
nodded
it
to
periodically,
then
it's
not
really
serving
any
purpose
at
all.
I
hate
to
say
it,
but
I'm
afraid
I,
think
this
document
read
a
little
bit
like
a
Labor
Party
manifesto
aspiration,
where
it
was
full
of
hope
and
promises,
but
actually
the
action
is
very
different.
I
don't
think
today.
I
I
So,
let's
not
forget
that
I
have
sympathy
for
any
organization
trying
to
manage
this
terrible
situation,
but
like
Mark
I
have
some
problems
with
the
actual
difference
between
what's
happening
in
the
document
about
you
know,
we're
all
work
together,
we're
all
power
together,
we'll
all
struggle
together
and
the
reality
on
the
ground
plans.
Plans
plans,
plans
there's
this
plan.
This
is
the
one
City
plan
this
the
work
face
plant
walk
workforce
plan,
there's
a
plan
for
plan.
I
There's
a
local
plan
planning
is
very
20th
century,
like
neoliberal
economics,
it's
kind
of
a
bit
out
of
fashion,
so
planning
is
great,
but
we
need
to
have
decision
making
decisions
about
how
we
help
people
just
decisions
about
how
we
actually
make
these
empower
communities
be
able
to
pull
themselves
up
by
their
bootstraps
and
I.
Don't
think
it's
as
easy
as
just
writing
it
down
on
paper.
You
have
to
help
you
have
to
facilitate.
You
have
to
be
out
in
communities.
I
It's
going
to
be
much
much
tougher
than
this
document
makes
out,
so
I
really
want
to
kind
of
be
a
bit
of
a
war
I
think
most
people
in
the
public
gallery.
Certainly
understand
where
I'm
coming
from
here,
it's
gonna
be
a
kind
City,
a
safe
city,
a
green
city,
a
clean
City,
a
digitally
connected
socially
progressively
municipal
II,
invested
sort
of
the
city.
I
That
was
my
attempt
to
kind
of
wrap
in
because,
because
we've
been
talking
a
lot
about
poetry
as
well,
this
week
is
a
Green
Party,
because
the
Tories
want
to
get
rid
of
the
city,
poet
and
we've
done
that's
good
idea,
but
wrapping
marks
out
a
chair
not
very
good,
but
all
this
with
less
money
and
less
power,
and
it's
possible
I
really
really
hope.
It's
possible
and
I
believe
that
the
Bristol
story
is
that
we
will
all
pull
together
and
we
will
make
something
good
happen
out
of
this,
but
I'm
not
sure
this
documents.
I
I
Please
please
take
a
step
back
and
look
and
listen
to
your
workforce,
the
corporate
body
here
in
the
city,
the
city
hall
workers
and
the
workers
out
there
in
town,
the
volunteers,
the
moms,
the
dads
the
people
were
asking
to
kind
of
pull
with
us
here.
Let's
have
a
corporate
health
check.
People
are
stressed.
People
need
more
support.
I
I
Call
to
action,
it's
a
terrible
time
to
be
a
local
government.
We
need
more
participatory
economics
and
more
actual
real
help
on
the
ground.
Please
I'm
not
sure,
like
the
Tories,
actually
that
I
can
recommend
to
my
group
I'm
not
going
to
vote
for
it.
We
are
not
whipped.
So
actually,
at
this
point
I'm
going
to
let
my
colleagues
decide
which
way
they
go
on
it,
they
may
have
a
different
view
of
the
story,
but
I
will
not
be
voting
for
it.
Thank
you.
K
Of
why
we
should
be
here
today
to
protect
services,
services
of
people
in
this
city
actually
need,
but
I'm,
not
certain.
A
lot
of
people
actually
understand
that
the
corporate
plan,
this
council
for
many
years,
had
a
reputation
for
having
rich
looking
policies
which
it
never
carried
out.
It
seems
that
those
days
are
back
again
because
there's
a
lot
of
motherhood
and
apple
pie
in
this
corporate
strategy,
but,
as
has
already
been
pointed
out
by
previous
speakers,
the
reality
in
some
cases
is
exactly
the
opposite.
K
So
a
court
just
from
as
an
example,
page
29,
we're
collaborative
well
hang
on.
Wasn't
there
a
pledge
about
working
with
an
old
party
cabinet
that
hasn't
lasted
very
long?
Has
it
we
come
together
to
reach
shared
goals,
and
we
take
personal
and
collective
responsibility
for
Frank.
Finding
the
answers
we
ask
for
other
perspectives
and
respect
different
opinions.
We
make
connections
and
take
opportunities
to
work
together.
Well,
really,
is
that
what's
happening
in
this
council
at
the
moment,
because
I
don't
think
so
it
also
says
we
are
curious.
We
ask
questions
and
explore
possibilities.
K
K
Well,
the
only
thing
I've
actually
seen,
although
I
don't
agree
with
Tory
central
government
policies,
pointing
a
finger
and
saying
it's
thing
to
do
with
me.
Well,
actually,
as
we'll
find
out
later
on
today.
A
number
of
these
things
are
to
do
with
this
administration,
and
it
isn't
just
the
unwelcome
cuts
from
central
government
at
the
moment
that
are
causing
the
problems
so
that
we,
this
administration,
must
take
responsibility
for
what
it's
actually
doing,
and
some
of
it
is
unnecessary
cuts,
as
some
people
in
the
public
gallery
are
actually
saying.
K
L
Well,
I
think
if
I
just
come
back
Gary
the
the
interesting
thing
is
that
every
value
you
just
listed
and
ridiculed
were
not
developed
by
the
labor
group
alone
is
actually
from
the
work
force
of
this
organization.
We
ran
a
workforce,
wide
piece
of
work.
We
went
out
and
said
what
kind
of
values
do
you
want
this
organization
two-bit
to
hold
and
in
terms
of
the
way
we
treat
each
other?
The
way
we
work
with
the
public,
we
work
with
partners
and
every.
A
M
A
We
are
now
going
to
adjourn
this
meeting
and
will
you
all
please
leave
the
chamber
and
thank
you
and
we're
now
going
to
go
straight
on
the
corporate
strategy
and
the
rest
I
will
explain
to
you
as
we
come
to
it.
So,
first
of
all
we're
going
as
we
said,
we're
going
straight
to
the
vote,
so
the
electronic
electronic
vote
will
run
for
15
seconds.
So
please
vote
now.
A
N
L
Thank
you
look
mayor,
I'm,
just
going
to
say
a
couple
of
things.
Shortening
the
remarks
quite
considerably
I
do
need
to
say
a
little
bit
before
I
start
to
advise
you
that
the
final
budget
settlement
was
announced
by
the
Secretary
of
State.
On
a
sixth
of
February
2018,
there
were
a
small
number
of
changes
which
will
impact
on
the
council's
budget
position.
These
are
first
an
additional
funding
for
adult
social
care
support
grant
in
2018-19
and,
secondly,
section
31
grant
attributed
to
the
changes
in
formula
for
calculating
small
business
rate
relief.
L
Although
for
call
funding
assumptions,
they
remain,
as
per
the
provisional
settlement
published
towards
the
end
of
December
2017
for
any
necessary
technical
adjustments
necessary.
These
will
be
made
through
delegated
authority
in
developing
and
proposing
this
budget.
We've
obviously
considered
the
equalities
impact
assessments
and
the
consultation
responses
to
the
your
neighborhoods
consultation
and
I'd
like
to
thank
everyone
who
took
part
in
that
consultation
and
obviously
we're
continuing
the
dialogue
with
the
City,
our
partners
and
our
members.
L
The
context
of
this
budget
is
one
that
we
are
very
aware
of.
Local
Government
Association,
saying
by
2020
local
governments,
will
have
lost
75
pence
out
of
every
1
pound
of
core
central
government
funding
that
it
had
to
spend
in
2015
and
by
any
measure
that
presents
us
with
a
huge
range
of
challenges
that,
in
the
face
of
global
forces
that
are
out
of
our
control,
a
growing
population
with
increasing
demand
and
the
the
perverse
self-feeding
cycle
of
austerity,
leading
to
more
vulnerable
people,
lower
numbers
of
early
interventions
and
needing
more
government
services.
L
So
just
just
to
pull
up
in
the
face
of
that.
What
we
tried
to
do
in
this
budget
is
pull
the
savings
in
house
as
much
as
we
can
we've
drawn
down
on
our
reserves:
40
million
pounds
to
protect
our
frontline
services,
saving
over
800,000
pound
the
changes
at
the
senior
level
of
the
organization.
So
our
aim
is
to
use
the
role
the
the
council
plays
in
the
city
as
much
as
possible,
as
well
as
the
services
we
provide.
So
I
bring
this
budget
to
you
for
your
consideration
and
hope
for
your
support.
O
Not
in
today's
budget
debate,
but
in
the
course
of
our
work,
we
recognize
that
not
everything
went
well
in
the
process.
The
budget
consultation
exercise
produced
a
low
response
from
residents,
as
indeed
did
public
forum
today
when
the
proposals
directly
affect
every
resident.
Why
is
this
response
so
low?
We
put
enormous
resources
into
consulting,
but
it
didn't
really
work.
O
O
I
recognized
the
timing
of
publication
is
always
going
to
be
difficult
with
the
deadlines
that
are
necessary
for
cabinet
and
and
for
this
council
meeting,
but
the
fact
that
ultimate
rying
to
review
a
budget
of
this
detail
three
days
after
it
was
published,
limited
the
ability
to
scrutinize,
although
in
my
view,
members
achieved
a
remarkable
level
of
questioning,
even
with
that
short
period
of
notice.
There
were
a
couple
of
other
points
that
were
of
real
concern
to
members
that
I
just
emphasized
here.
O
The
need
for
a
much
strengthened
asset
management
and
property
strategy
has
to
be
continued
as
high
priority
in
the
current
year
and
work
needs
to
be
undertaken
in
the
course
of
this
year
to
address
the
significant
challenges
facing
the
HR,
a
30-year
business
plan.
I
could
go
on
my
lord
mayor
and
use
my
allotted
ten
minutes.
I
wasn't
planning
to
anyway,
and
it
would
be
an
outrage
to
do
so
when
the
group
leaders
haven't
had
a
chance
to
speak.
O
But
I
would
just
like
to
comment
by
reiterating
awesomes
thanks
to
all
the
officers
involved
in
the
budget
process
and
in
budget
scrutiny.
I
specifically
mentioned
the
section
1
5,
1
officer,
the
head
of
Finance
and
the
finance
business
partners
for
their
incredibly
hard
work
in
the
production
of
the
budget
reports
and
speaking
cross-party
as
I
am
I.
Also
extend
my
thanks
to
councillor
Craig
Cheney.
O
For
the
part
he
played
in
supporting
the
scrutiny
process
and
ensuring
that
the
level
of
openness
and
involvement
amongst
the
task
and
finish
group
was
at
the
level
it
was
my
Lord
Mayor.
That
concludes
the
awesome
comments
and
respect
to
the
budget.
The
rest
of
the
report
is,
or
in
the
paperwork
and
I'm
sure
members
will
have
read
it.
Thank
you.
A
Sorry
about
that,
we
will
now
take
the
adjournment
that
we
were
going
to
take
it's
on
time,
but
with
an
awful
lot
left
out
and
as
soon
as
we
come
back
we're
going
to
going
on
to
section
five
of
the
procedure
and
look
at
the
amendments,
because
I
believe
that
you
may
want.
You
may
want
to
discuss
this
and
reduce
the
number
of
speakers.
A
Right,
we
will
now
work
through
the
amendments
proposed
by
the
party
groups.
As
you
can
see
from
your
agenda
paper,
six
amendments
have
been
received
in
total,
each
amendment
will
be
moved
seconded,
debated
and
then
voted
on
individually
in
the
order
shown
on
the
agenda
papers.
In
the
terms
of
a
vote,
the
amendment
is
carried
shall
be
carried
by
simple
majority
of
those
voting
and
also
in
the
terms
of
voting.
Please
note
that
once
I
call
an
electronic
vote,
the
vote
will
be
open
for
15
seconds.
So.
A
P
You
I
move
the
Lib
Dem
budget
amendment,
which
is
in
my
name
and
printed
within
the
budget
paperwork
you'll,
find
it
on
page
4,
4
7.
Our
proposal
puts
money
back
into
key
frontline
services,
libraries
parks
and
adult
social
care.
We
invest
capital,
money
into
parks
and
libraries,
aides
and
as
actions
into
new
school
buildings,
parks
are
being
asked
to
make
savings
beyond
what
we
know
is
deliverable
and
will
result
in
their
major
degradation
and
the
closure
of
children's
play
facilities.
But
there
is
another
way
we
can
reverse
some
of
the
worst
proposals.
P
We
can
create
a
major
capital
fund
to
repair
children's
play
areas,
investing
facilities
and
help
fund
new
schemes
that
will
generate
revenue.
We
all
know
the
threat
to
17
libraries
has
not
been
lifted.
We
still
believe
a
new
cooperative
way
of
delivering
library.
Services
can
save
many
branches,
but
by
reducing
future
cuts
to
a
manageable
level,
even
more
may
be
saved.
Additionally,
a
capital
fund
will
be
created
to
help
expand
out
of
ours,
access
to
libraries
and
thundery
locations
to
reduce
revenue
costs.
We
also
propose
additional
funding
into
flood
protection
and
neighborhood
working.
P
There
is
a
dire
threat
of
flooding
to
our
city.
Far
more
needs
to
be
done.
The
small
amount
of
funding
proposed
would
allow
us
to
recruit
more
officers
to
prepare
those
external
bits,
attracting
potentially
millions
of
pounds
of
additional
funding
and
helping
protect
our
city.
The
mayor
has
ambitious
plans
for
more
housing.
Unfortunately,
those
plans
also
need
additional
infrastructure
and
that
has
been
lagging
far
more
new
school
places
will
be
needed
in
southwest.
Oh,
there
has
been
planned
for
and
now
there's
a
severe
lack
of
funding
for
these
six
million
pounds.
P
Additional
funding
will
ensure
that
every
child
has
a
school
place
south
of
the
river.
But
how
will
we
fund
this?
We
have
identified
that
the
mayor's
budget
has
a
major
flaw.
At
least
10
million
pounds
has
not
been
included
in
the
five-year
plan
of
SIL
receipts
that
we
can
project
will
be
paid
to
the
council
over
the
next
five
years.
P
The
coach
receives
around
3
million
pounds
of
sale
a
year
and
currently
has
nearly
7
million
pounds
banked,
but,
as
can
been
seen
on
page
254
of
the
report
in
front
of
you,
the
five-year
plan
projects
only
spending
just
under
13
million
pounds
of
SIL.
This
is
at
least
10
million
pounds
short
of
an
anticipated
strategic
receipts.
I
do
state
strategic
and
does
not
take
into
account
the
growth
in
house
building
for
the
mayor
projects.
P
We
disagree
that
the
that
the
50
million
pounds
should
be
borrowed
over
the
next
5
years
and
how
does
a
capital
contingency
fund?
This
contradicts
D
CLG
advice.
We
think
it's
poor
management
peconics
on
the
wrong
choice
for
this
city.
That
money
is
not
free
to
achieve
this
unneeded
contingency
around
two
and
a
half
million
pounds
will
be
cut
from
services
and
must
be
paid
off
for
the
next
50
years.
P
The
total
cost
of
this
50
million
pound
contingency
is
around
120
million
pounds
and
interest
and
repayment
a
debt
that
we
will
not
just
be
paying.
Our
children
won't
just
be
paying,
but
our
grandchildren
will,
until
the
last
repayment
is
made
in
2070
to
any
borrowing
over.
Such
a
long
period
should
have
a
rigorous
case,
an
imperative
need
and
not
on
the
whim
of
our
former
chief
executive,
rather
than
borrow
money
to
add
to
the
tens
of
millions
of
pounds
that
we
already
hold.
P
That's
ensure
that
our
managers
manage
their
projects
and
that
we
don't
go
cutting
frontline
services
to
create
what
appears
to
be
a
slush
fund.
Politics
is
about
choices,
those
aren't
my
words
they're.
Actually,
the
words
of
of
our
mayor
and
I
agree
with
them.
We
understand
the
council
now
has
faced
nine
years
of
austerity
measures.
It's
tough
running
account,
so
we
get
that
like
many
in
this
chamber,
I
think
local
government
has
done
its
bit
and
that
has
found
enough
savings
and
reduced
expenditure
and
that
the
current
government
is
underfunding.
P
Local
government
I
think
there's
a
little
dispute
about
that,
but
we
do
serve
choices
we
can
make
today.
I
present
was
one
of
the
greatest
budget
amendments.
This
council
has
ever
considered
a
60
million
pounds
plus
change
to
the
budget
proposals
over
the
next
five
years
allows
us
to
make
choices
nationally.
Labor
say
that
austerity
is
a
choice
if
they're.
If
this
budget
goes
through
without
amendment,
then
that's
a
choice
that
Labour
councillors
have
made
here
in
this
city.
I.
Don't
believe
that
many
people
opposite
wish
to
make
that
choice.
P
I,
don't
believe
your
residents
do
as
well.
I,
don't
think
you're
here
to
cut
services.
If
you
adopt
this
amendment,
the
Liberal
Democrat
group
will
vote
with
you
to
pass
the
budget.
We
will
stand
with
you
in
making
a
choice
you
make
if
you
make
a
reasoned
choice,
we'll
make
that
recent
choice
with
you
and
help
you.
That
is
an
offer.
Our
amendment
has
steered
away
from
controversial
and
the
political
point-scoring
we
have
focused
on
the
essential
and
unearth
the
hidden.
We
are
funding
what
is
needed
and
cutting
what
is
not.
P
Q
It's
a
problem-solving
amendment
and
I
hope
you
will
embrace
it
the
it
should
be
clear
that
we
are
not
taking
money
out
of
the
emergency
reserve,
as
some
people
have
suggested.
We
are
simply
looking
at
the
contingency
fund,
which
is
stacked
and
not
not
very
constructive,
and
it's
the
contingency
fund
comes
in
after
there
has
been
value,
engineering
contingencies
attached
to
projects
and
also
grant
contingencies.
Q
This
is
just
another
level
of
stacking
money
into
the
system,
and
to
do
that,
of
course,
this
money
has
to
be
borrowed
at
at
enormous
cost,
which
will,
as
you've
just
heard,
will
take
a
very
to
generations
to
pay
off.
The
third
thing
I
wanted
to
make
to
make
clear
is
that
SIL,
for
some
reason
has
not
been
fully
explained
and
and
credited
in
this
budget,
despite
the
fact
that
estimates
were
always
made
of
a
council
tax
of
benefits
of
business
rates,
that
has
not
been
the
case
with
SIL.
Q
In
this
case,
a
large
amount
of
estimated
funds
have
have
fallen
away.
So
I
think
you
can
see
where
we're
coming
from.
We
found
money
and
we're
actually
stopping
payments
against
other
money
which
is
not
going
to
serve
the
all
of
your
constituents.
The
people
are
going
to
be
most
hit
here
are
the
people
we
all
that
the
poorer
people,
the
people
that
are
most
disadvantaged
in
our
society,
we've
had
this
argument
for
many
many
weeks.
We
need
to
understand
that
this
is
a
chance.
Q
This
is
a
big
opportunity
to
look
big
and
do
something
really
bold
in
this
council
and
get
away
from
just
having
to
stick
your
hand
up
and
saying
all
the
time
austerity
is
what's
to
blame.
We've
got
a.
We
know,
that's
true,
but
we've
also
got
a
chance
here
to
do
something
about
it.
Something
intelligent
and
constructive.
I
urge
you
to
consider
this
not
just
for
your
your
constituents
and
maybe
not
just
for
the
people.
Q
Looking
over
your
shoulder
and
tapping
on
you
and
telling
you
where
you're
going
to
be
a
standing
or
not
standing
in
2020,
this
is
about
the
city
of
Bristol
and
making
a
good
choice
that
word
again
for
the
people
that
you
represent.
All
of
you.
It
means
being
bold,
it
means
cutting
loose
from
from
party
stringencies
and
and
and
and
commands
you've
got
to
be
bold
here
and
I
think
you'll
be
appreciated
for
it.
Q
If
you're,
if
you're
come
forward
and
understand,
this
is
an
alternative
way
forward,
because
if
you
don't
do
that,
you're
going
to
have
to
retreat
back
into
that
bunker
that
austerity
bunker-
and
that's
the
only
that's
the
only
word
we
hear
from
this
side
of
the
chamber
and
when
we've
when
we
put
forward.
As
with
the
library
suggestions,
we
put
forward
no-cost
ways
of
going
forward
and
you
still
stick
up
your
hands
and
talk
about
austerity
being
the
reason
you
can't
accept
that
solution.
Don't
do
it
again
today.
This
is
a
chance.
Q
The
press
are
here.
The
people
of
Bristol
are
watching
you
and
wanting
to
know
that
you're
going
to
make
the
right
sensible,
bold
decision
for
the
future
of
Bristol
and
the
people
in
it.
We
can
restore
some
of
the
cuts
that
have
had
to
be
made
it
in
by
adopting
this
budget.
This
is
intelligent,
it's
bright,
go
for
it
and
don't
end
up
by
being
the
people
that
have
to
just
have
austerity
to
come
back
on.
This
is
an
alternative
grasp.
Q
A
R
Thank
you.
My
lord
man,
the
Lib
Dems
proposal
to
take
out
50
million
pound
from
the
capital
contingency
fund
is
irresponsible.
Well,
their
community
infrastructure
and
levy
revenue
streams
are
clear,
censors
fairly
money
which
simply
doesn't
exist,
call
it
misleading
politics,
but
sadly
this
is
what
we've
come
to
expect
from
our
party.
That
has
let
down
a
lot
of
people
when
you
let
down
students
by
trebling
their
fees.
I
see
that
Steven
Williams
isn't
here.
R
Please
therefore
explain
where
this
magic
money
tree
for
a
community
infrastructure
levee
could
be
found.
The
500,000
found
over
five
years
proposal
by
the
Lib
Dems
for
libraries
is
by
their
own
admission.
Only
a
partial
reversal
is
just
as
you
just
said,
that
the
media's
here
is
just
a
simple
publicity
stunt.
You
know
that
Tim,
you
know
that
Gary
and
you
know
that
mentally
departs
consultations
are
ongoing
and
we
welcome
sincere
discussions
and
realistic,
workable
proposals,
provided
that
the
numbers
stack
up.
R
Unfortunately,
your
numbers
simply
don't
stack
up
off
the
33
million
pound
over
the
next
five
years.
4.5
million
pound
is
earmarked
for
sports
provision,
including
the
East
Bristol
pool
development
and
Gary
and
Tim
sorry
to
break
it
to
you,
but
just
in
case,
anyone
in
your
party
is
suffering
from
selective
amnesia.
It
was
you
guys
who
decided
to
close
down
the
swimming
pool
in
speed,
walk
which
I
used
to
use
as
a
child,
and
unfortunately
my
son
can't
so
now.
R
Fortunately,
we've
got
a
Labour
administration
that
will
be
delivering
and
you
Bristol
pool
under
this
administration.
We
have
exceeded
the
councilors
own
emission
reduction
target
and
we
aim
to
build
on
this
by
spending
14
million
pound
on
the
energy
work
stream
to
initiative
that
will
focus
on
the
immediate
action
required
test
errors
from
the
worst
effects
of
climate
change,
the
Lib,
Dems
and
I'm.
R
Sorry
to
break
this
to
you,
but
the
truth
does
hurt,
whilst
in
coalition
they've
not
only
abandoned
students,
they've
also
abandoned
the
police
by
supporting
the
Tories
to
cut
over
20,000
police
officers
abandoned
loads.
Constitutional
reform
abandoned
the
mansion
tax,
a
literally
of
broken
promises,
of
which
this
amendment
is
the
latest
in
a
long
line.
I
therefore
call
on
all
members
to
join
me
in
voting
down
this
amendment.
S
Thank
you,
Lord
Mayor,
a
lot
of
the
energy
has
gone
from
forming
something,
so
politics
really
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
I've
read
the
amendment
and
I've
seen
the
video
posted
by
your
accounts.
There
Kent
I,
think
you
were
sat
on
the
wrong
benches,
but
but
I
do
believe
that
this
amendment
will
be
popular
with
many
residents
in
the
city
and
I'll.
Just
briefly
comment
on
a
few:
the
flooding
issue.
We
all
know
it's
a
real
problem,
so
I
used
to
be
in
the
Cub
Scouts.
You
know
be
prepared.
S
Let's
do
the
work
today,
so
we
can
be
ready
for
the
problems
that
we
know
are
coming
that
tomorrow,
south
Bristol
will
see
many
thousands
of
new
homes.
So
it's
a
only
right
and
proper
that
we
ensure
that
many
of
our
residents
have
the
right
to
access
schools
in
their
in
their
local
vicinity
and
obviously
good
quality
schools.
So
the
money
can
be
used
to
improve,
build
new
schools
and
to
drive
up
attainment
in
the
area,
better
lives
and
these
and
adaptions
the
idea
that
we
invest
in
our
residents
to
support
them
living
independently.
S
I
think
it's
a
real
positive.
Why?
Wouldn't
we
try
to
let
them
live
independent
lives
for
as
long
as
possible?
Before
then,
the
state
has
to
support
them.
Hopefully,
a
few
years
later,
libraries
I've
always
been
a
big
fan
of
life,
I've
used
them,
which
for
children,
use
them
and
the
opportunity
to
protect
the
library
Network
course.
S
We
can
actually
agree
on
what
the
library
structure
should
look
like
for
the
city,
and
it
needs
to
be
a
citywide
discussion
is,
is
great,
I
mean
just
last
Wednesday
wick
Road
library
had
70
children,
70
children,
plus
carers,
at
a
baby,
Bank
and
rhyme
session.
You
know
that
is
testament
to
the
work
that
the
libraries
do.
S
Where
will
the
money
come
from?
Well
I've
grown
up
in
Bristol
all
my
life,
it's
a
city
that
doesn't
have
a
great
track
record
in
delivering.
However,
we
have
a
new
senior
leadership
team
which
brings
a
lot
of
experience
and
throws
me
personally
with
a
lot
of
confidence
and
with
this
new
leadership
team
and
the
new
processes
that
have
been
implemented.
I
am
sure
that
the
capital
put
the
capital
program
has
been
properly
costed,
which
will
probably
build
in
a
contingency
anyway
and
will
be
properly
managed.
So
we
I
personally
further.
S
T
You
look
mayor.
We
support
the
Lib
Dem
amendment
because
it's
moving
the
right
direction,
in
particular
to
support
the
best
possible
future
for
the
city's,
much-loved
parks
and
libraries
in
the
coming
year.
There'll
be
a
20%
cut
in
the
funding
for
our
parks
in
the
previous
year
and
and
a
15%
cut
in
the
funding
for
our
libraries
with
17
out
of
the
city's
27
libraries
scheduled
to
close
in
December.
These
cuts
total
1.3
million
for
the
coming
year
and
will
increase
further
in
future
years.
T
As
Green
said
in
our
parks,
consultation,
submission,
Bristol's
parks
and
green
spaces
play
a
key
role
in
any
city,
but
particularly
within
Bristol.
They
act
as
a
place
to
play
place
to
rest
in
a
place
to
meet.
They
allow
those
on
low
incomes
access
to
green
spaces.
They
might
not
have
they
help
combat
air
pollution
and
the
increased
biodiversity
as
currently
envisaged.
The
administration's
approach
to
parks,
but
they
can
have
such
a
high
level
of
self
funding,
is
unrealistic.
As
a
first
step.
T
We
support
the
proposal
of
the
Bristol
parks
forum
that
we
reinstate
the
head
of
parks
position,
which
was
lost
as
part
of
emergency
budget
freeze.
Only
with
such
a
position
can
Bristol
hope
to
achieve
a
future
for
Bristol's
parks,
which
is
worthy
of
their
value.
With
regards
to
libraries
at
the
November
full
council,
there
were
petitions
from
loved
Bristol
libraries
and
other
petitioners
signed
by
over
seven
and
a
half
thousand
people,
and
a
vote
by
the
majority
of
Bristol's
councillors
that
the
mayor
and
cabinet
should
reconsider
their
proposals
and
protect
the
future
of
Bristol's
libraries.
T
If
these
libraries
are
closed
with
a
pro
with
proposed
cuts
this
year
to
our
parks
and
libraries
at
one
point,
three
million
pounds,
the
lib
dems
amendment
would
reduce
this
cut
by
150,000.
This
doesn't
save
our
parks
or
libraries,
but
it
is
a
move
in
the
right
direction
and
one
which
we
hope
the
labor
administration
will
support.
U
I'm,
like
most
councillors,
I
wasn't
elected
with
high
levels
of
knowledge,
about
economics
and
I'm
still
learning,
but
even
I
can
see.
This
is
unworkable
and
based
on
the
premise
of
certain
money
when
in
fact
it's
no
such
thing.
It
reminds
me
of
the
last
verse
that
alan
jay
lerner
never
got
around
to
writing
and
could
have
ended
with
a
round
of
old
word
and
it'd
be
lovely.
U
He
was
talking
about
the
national
economy
and
I
think
he
was
wrong
in
that
case,
but
in
local
government
we
have
our
hands
tied
by
the
by
Westminster
in
terms
of
funding
and
their
laws
that
have
been
imposed
on
us.
With
this
amendment,
it
seems
like
they've,
moved
from
one
extreme
to
the
other,
with
what
appears
to
be
a
chaotic
attempt
at
rewriting
the
medium
term
financial
plan.
This
amendment
is
based
on
the
idea
that
no
disasters
are
going
to
happen
and
they're
all
projects
from
which
we
get
Syl
money.
U
Well,
we
will
be
complete
and
be
on
time.
Perhaps
the
new
ideological
merger
is
with
the
Socialist
Workers
Party
or
another
hard
left
grouping
that
Labour's
leader
is
constantly
being
accused
of
being
allied
with
no-one
wants.
These
cuts
and
I'll
be
supporting
this
budget
with
a
heavy
heart.
I,
don't
think,
there's
anything
else
we
can
do
unless
we
put
up
council
tax
set
an
illegal
budget
or
let
an
anti-austerity
UK
government
bring
it
on.
H
You,
my
lord
mayor,
obviously
a
lot
of
it's
already
been
said
and
I
think
Graham
was
right.
A
lot
of
the
energy
probably
has
left
room
now.
I
think
we
all
spent
the
weekend
psyching
ourselves
up
getting
ready
for
a
full-on
fight
and
despite
councillor
nagisa's
best
efforts
and
Joe.
If
that's
a
you
know,
you're
running
on
half
cylinders,
then
you're
doing
very
well
I,
it's
hard
to
make
the
full
political
argument,
but
I
just
want
to
come
back
on
some
of
the
things
that
are
being
said.
H
If
you
don't
believe
that
the
SIL
is
going
to
come
in,
then
you
don't
believe
you're
going
to
be
delivering
the
housing.
That's
in
the
mayor's
manifesto
would
actually.
You
were
in
the
press,
release
I.
Think
a
couple
a
day
saying
you
were
going
to
hit
those
targets.
If
you
hit
those
targets,
if
you
deliver
it,
the
sill
comes
in
and
you're
not
front-loading
that
sill
into
all
year,
one
its
staggered,
so
it
can
dip
in
a
flow
ebb
and
flow
as
it
comes
in.
H
But
if
you
hit
your
housing
targets,
this
money
comes
in
now.
I
think
you
would
probably
would
have
faith
that
you're
going
to
do
so.
Certainly
councillor
Smith
obviously
does
yeah,
but
you're
not
delivering
only
affordable
housing.
Are
you
councilors
me
so
that
money
should
be
there
and
when
it
comes
to
continuously
planning?
I
would
just
say
this
when
we
put
a
capital
program
in
when
we
put
something
in
there
like
Metro
bus,
which
I
think
actually
didn't
start
in
the
last
note,
I
should
start
on
the
Lib
Dem
administration.
H
Well,
that's
a
that's
a
minor
issue:
it's
not
ours!
Shh
I'll
be
quiet
when
you
put
that
in
wouldn't
it
be
nice
if
we
actually
had
a
proper
budget
because
all
of
these
seem
to
overflow,
we
should
actually
have
proper
accounting
proper
budgeting
from
the
beginning,
because
at
the
moment
we
have
a
contingency
for
a
contingency
for
the
actual
project,
and
actually
we
need
proper
accounting
on
this.
So
I
actually
do
think
the
sillies
going
to
come
in.
H
Maybe
how
I
have
more
faith
that
the
housing
will
be
delivered
than
you
do,
but
I
think
the
money
will
come
in
and
song
says,
put
in
wisely
we're
looking
at
capital
spending
which
can
ever
flow
as
the
market
changes
as
needs
rise.
I
think
this
money
can
do
a
lot
of
good.
So
on
that
basis,
are
we
voting
in
favor
of
it?
I
do
think
this
is
worthwhile
and
do
think
it
stacks
up.
Thank
You.
V
Thank
you,
Lord
Mayor.
What
a
brilliant
amendment
it
saves
the
park
saves.
The
libraries
builds.
Schools
helps
the
vulnerable
plants,
the
trees,
revitalize
these
neighborhoods
and
stops
flooding
it
even
in
peaches,
Donald,
Trump
and
reverses
brexit,
okay,
I
exaggerate
and
the
only
cost.
The
only
cost
is
to
get
rid
of
the
enormous
contingency
for
rubbish
capital
project
estimating
and
to
make
use
of
SIL
once
it
again
becomes
available.
Well,
that's
what
I
thought
when
I
first
read
it
I'm
closely
expense
inspection.
It
occurs
to
me.
It
isn't
quite
that
good.
V
The
amendment
runs
over
a
number
of
years.
I
asked
officers
to
clarify
what
amendments
for
future
years
actually
counted
for.
I
got
one
of
those
replies
where
you
understand
all
the
individual
words,
but
have
no
real
idea
of
the
overall
meaning.
Even
so.
Common
sense
dictates
that,
given
we
will
be
back
here
next
year
with
another
budget
and
another
set
of
amendments
assuming
labor
haven't
abolished
them,
anything
proposed
beyond
this
year
will
either
get
subsumed,
replaced
or
ignored.
V
So
I
struggle
personally
just
put
too
much
weight
on
anything
which
comes
after
the
next
financial
year
as
such.
In
brief,
regarding
the
removal
of
the
Capel
contingency
well,
we
can
see
that
some
contingent
is
sensible.
We
have
a
generic
and
nonspecific
fund,
it
lacks
transparency
and
it's
unclear
why
the
amount
have
been
set
to
the
levels
proposed.
The
amendment
proposes
hundred
K
for
libraries,
yes
good,
but
in
my
view,
if
we
serious
about
running
a
network
of
27
libraries,
we
need
to
return
to
funding
levels
of
pre
2010.
V
We
need
millions,
it
proposes
50k
for
parks.
Yes,
every
little
hell
every
little
helps
part
of
vital
lungs
for
the
city.
We
have
our
own
little
amendment
coming
up,
but
again
we
need
far
more
and
the
300k
capital
funding
for
AIDS
and
adaptation
for
those
with
impairments
and
older
people's
speaks
for
itself.
So
in
summary,
and
partly
because
we
don't
place
too
much
weight
on
the
important
of
subsequent
years,
proposals
for
reasons
out,
but
mainly
because
trying
to
save
libraries
and
Parks
is
that
important
I
will
be
supporting
this
amendment.
Thank
You.
W
Lord
Mayor,
what
am
I
looking
it
for
in
a
budget?
Well,
it
must
balance
and
to
councillor
Shaw.
The
numbers
do
stack
up
with
this
amendment.
They've
been
signed
off,
it
should
have
vision
and
it
should
be
prudent.
What
do
I
mean
by
prudent
to
me?
It
means
that
every
penny
that
we
collect
from
Bristol
residents
and
businesses
works
for
the
city
and
its
people,
and
it's
not
about
squirreling
away
large
sums
of
money
for
unspecified
purposes
at
some
unspecified
time
in
the
future.
To
me
that
is
wasting
money.
W
It
is
wasting
the
power
of
money
to
make
change.
I
won't
go
on
too
much
about
contingencies
because
others
have
spoken
about
it,
but
I
will
say
simply
that
when
we
deliver
the
primary
school
programme,
the
contingencies
built
into
each
project
carried
that
project
through
and
they
were
carefully
calculated
and
they
were
appropriate.
So
large
sums
of
money
don't
make
sense.
W
In
that
context,
and
to
me
the
whole
thing
gets
worse
to
fund
this
fund
mayor,
you
will
borrow
to
fund
the
funding,
you
will
cut
services
and
in
funding
the
borrowing
you
inhibit
future
generations
from
carrying
out
their
vision.
For
the
city,
because
they
are
paying
off
our
debts
now,
in
my
view,
that
is
anything
but
prudent,
because
it's
not
making
every
penny
work
to
improve
lives
now
or
in
the
future.
W
Now
the
alternative
offered
by
us
is
to
think
in
terms
of
investment.
Now
you
have
shaken
many
people
by
your
cavalier
attitude
to
libraries,
cooperative
council,
York
City
have
taken
a
very
different
approach
and
their
library
service
is
growing.
Your
wholly
unrealistic
proposed
the
parks
and
green
spaces
will
damage
the
city,
and
both
of
these
are
all
part
of
the
public
health
infrastructure
and
they
are
essential
for
urban
living.
They
need
investment,
not
savaging.
W
An
appropriate
aid
or
adaptation
fitted
when
needed,
helps
to
keep
older
or
disabled
people
independent
for
longer
investment,
breathing
new
life
into
the
flood
protection
plan,
investment
that
brings
in
further
money
and
should
mean
that
some
people
don't
suffer
great
misery
and
we
are
all
experiencing
the
effects
on
our
wards
of
removing
neighbor
partnership
grants.
One
effect
is
that
we
cannot
fund
feasibility
studies
for
minor
traffic
schemes.
Therefore,
we
cannot
use
SIL
for
these
and
we
just
found
a
lot
of
extra
millions
from
it.
W
So
making
the
crossing
of
camford
Lane
safer
working
with
residents
to
solve
dire
parking
problems
in
Westby
Park
are
all
delayed
because
we
cannot
fund
the
ground
work
and
community
engagement
necessary
to
take
them
forward
invests
in
the
community
mayor.
They
will
give
very
good
returns
for
relatively
small
amounts,
because.
W
F
F
Of
course,
it
doesn't
save
libraries
in
part,
sighs,
Jerome
and
Charlie
both
mentioned
it
puts
50
grand
into
parks
and
a
hundred
grand
into
into
libraries
when
they
need
millions
of
pounds,
as
we
know,
and
actually
it
also
raised
the
pot
of
money
that
we
would
potentially
use
to
make
any
capital
enhancements
to
that
to
those
parts
in
the
future.
The
capital
program
is
bot
is
such
a
point
that
we
can't
afford
to
borrow
anymore
so
for
every
bit
of
borrowing
we
have
to
take
in
the
future.
F
We're
gonna
have
to
take
things
out
of
the
program
to
do
that,
so
either
we
remove
things
from
this
program.
We
borrow
more
and
cut
more
services
or
we
what
do?
What
exactly?
What
you
plan,
which
is
chucks
and
pebbles
at
a
wall
so
problem
and
the
seer
I
mean
it
is
money
that
doesn't
exist.
Yet
what
I
love
your
confidence
in
our
ability
to
deliver?
Firstly,
to
deliver
all
projects
on
time,
which
is
something
that
on
on
course,
which
is
something
the
Lib
Dems
in
every
meeting.
F
I've
ever
been
to
criticize
us
for
not
being
able
to
do
not
only
that
the
SIL
money
doesn't
actually
exist.
Yet
we've
got
a
reasonable
amount
included
in
there
in
the
budget
projections,
if
you
think
we're
gonna
exceed
that
brilliant
I'm,
not
necessarily
convinced
that
we
will
so
I
think
it's
an
amendment
that
was
a
bit
of
a
trickery.
It's
a
bit
a
leaflet,
fodder
really
and
it's
labor
doesn't
like
libraries,
a
neighborhood
like
parks.
A
D
Y
Thank
you,
Lord
Mayor.
The
premise
of
this
amendment
is
simple
charge,
a
small
amount
more
to
people
who
can
easily
afford
to
pay
property
owners
and
developers
and
use
it
to
provide
the
essentials
to
those
in
deep
poverty.
The
council
currently
raises
two
hundred
and
twenty
eight
thousand
pounds
a
year
for
blocking
fees
and
sorry
for
fees
for
blocking
the
highway
with
skips
scaffolding
and
hoardings
the
level
of
these
fees.
Y
Only
sixty
pounds
per
month
for
scaffolding,
for
example,
is
currently
set
by
benchmarking
against
other
councils
in
the
area,
but
the
property
market
in
Bristol
bears
little
resemblance
to
the
market
in
the
rural
areas
of
the
southwest
and
much
more
in
common
with
the
other
major
UK
cities.
So
I
have
proposed
to
benchmark
Bristol's
fees
to
the
other
nine
core
cities
levels
which
would
raise
around
another
100
thousand
per
year
and
use
this
money
to
reverse
some
of
last
year's
damaging
cut
to
the
local
crisis
prevention
fund.
Y
The
local
crisis
prevention
fund
makes
small,
one-off
Emergency
payments
to
those
most
in
need
in
the
form
of
vouchers
for
essentials
such
as
food
toiletries,
gas
and
electricity.
It
also
provides
essential
household
goods,
a
bed
or
a
fridge,
for
example,
to
those
moving
from
temporary
or
supported
accommodation
to
a
more
secure
but
unfurnished
tenancy,
including
those
escaping
domestic
abuse,
all
those
formerly
homeless.
Y
For
those
people
who
seek
assistance,
families
forced
to
choose
between
food
and
fuel
or
people
unable
to
afford
the
basic
material
necessities
of
life.
This
fund
is
a
last
resort
and
a
vital
lifeline.
Since
last
year's
cap
to
the
fund,
45%
of
applicants
for
emergency
funding
have
been
turned
away
more
than
double
the
rate
of
the
previous
year
and
as
universal
credit
is
rolled
out,
the
demand
is
bound
to
increase
further.
On
top
of
that,
the
government's
new
homelessness
reduction
Act
increases
councils,
responsibilities
towards
those
who
are
homeless
or
threatened
with
homelessness.
Y
So
to
recap,
this
amendment
would
increase
emergency
funding
for
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
people
in
Bristol
and
it
would
pay
for
it
by
raising
charges
on
private
property
developments
which
blocked
roads.
I
hope
that
all
parties
will
put
party
politics
aside
and
support
this
amendment.
The
levels
of
inequality
and
homelessness
in
our
prosperous
city
are
an
embarrassment,
and
we
must
take
every
opportunity
we
can
to
tackle
them.
Thank
you.
Z
You
Lord
man
and
I'm
delighted
to
be
seconding.
My
colleague
Carla's
proposed
budget
amendment.
To
me,
the
proposal
really
is
quite
simple:
it's
a
direct
way
to
bridge
the
divide
between
those
profiting
from
development,
the
city
and
those
who
are
left
behind
in
the
city.
It
also
has
a
great
match,
with
the
mayor's
priorities
for
social
inclusion
and
for
sharing
the
proceeds
of
of
prosperity
with
the
prudent
rising
fees
for
development,
as
described
were
there
by
switching
resources
into
a
fund
offering
vital
and
urgent
support.
Z
That's
needed
to
tackle
the
pretty
the
preventive
work
around
homelessness,
that's
under
pressure
and
already
short
of
resources,
as
has
been
described,
turning
away
far
more
people
than
last
year.
We
all
know
the
inconvenience
of
coming
along
the
road
in
finding
the
pavement
block
the
path
blocked
by
development,
sometimes
for
months
on
end,
my
own
route
was
blocked
for
18
months
by
a
major
development
causing
the
street
to
be
closed.
I
get
complaints
from
that
streets
in
my
ward,
blocked
by
skips
by
scaffolding
and
so
on.
Z
At
the
same
time,
I
get
representations
about
the
amount
of
incomings
caused
by
these
developments,
and
yet
we're
not
reminding
developers
at
the
at
the
the
price
that's
been
set
to
get
on
with
their
work,
clear,
clear.
The
skips
to
clear
the
hoardings
to
clear
the
scaffolding
as
fast
as
I
can
the
low
fees
are
very
little
incentive
to
get
on
with
the
business.
The
proposal
also
very
wisely
recognizes
the
difference
between
domestic
small-scale
work
and
large-scale
commercial
development
work.
Z
It
proposes
two
different
levels
of
fees
so
that
the
households
are
simply
extending
or
updating
their
home
is
going
to
pay
one
rate
and
the
major
private
large-scale
developer
will
pay
another
they're,
the
ones
making
the
profit
out
of
growth
in
development
in
the
city,
suggesting
the
fees
are
set
to
the
course
benchmark
is,
to
my
mind,
a
very
wise
step.
That's
our
peer
group
and
this
city
is
more
prosperous.
It's
developing
and
growing
faster
than
most
of
those
are
the
core
cities.
Why
shouldn't
developers
be
paying
a
similar
rate,
at
least?
Z
Finally,
as
has
been
explained,
they
very
carefully
switches
resources
to
those
most
in
need
to
a
really
hard-pressed
budget.
That's
now
physically
unable
to
keep
up
with
the
number
of
calls
being
made
on
it
to
prevent
debt
to
prevent
homelessness
things
that
will
cost
us
far
more
in
the
long
term.
Anyway,.
Z
So
turning
away,
people
should
not
be
necessary
at
the
extent
it's
currently
carrying
on.
If
we
can
pass
this
amendment
and
increase
the
fees
to
very
sensible
levels
that
are
proposed,
it
fits
the
corporate
strategy
brilliantly,
while
showing
budget
prudence
link
between
prosperity
and
those
falling
behind
my
mind
has
simple
messages:
support
the
amendment
Thank
You.
AA
Was
planning
on
making
this
a
short
speech,
thanks
to
the
speech,
we've
had
seconding
this
amendment
I'm
able
to
shorten
it
even
more.
Bringing
our
fees
for
these
things
in
more
closely
in
line
with
our
comparator
obvious
comparator
cities
is
a
is
a
clear
good
idea
and
we
will
be
supporting
this
amendment.
AB
V
AB
AB
It
seems
to
me
a
small
rise
in
the
fee
schedule
with
mitigation
measures
for
residents,
as
outlined
in
the
amendment,
could
cause
could
make
a
big
difference
for
those
who,
through
misfortune,
have
course
rely
on
local
crisis
prevention.
Funding
I
also
agree
that
higher
fee
levies
may
be
may
help
to
focus
minds
and
encourage
earlier
completion
of
major
developments
which
join
their
construction,
often
obstruct
or
disrupt
the
highway.
AB
We
have
recently
seen
the
logic
of
this
approach
applied
in
the
idea
of
permitting
local
authorities
to
charge
utility
companies
for
the
delays
and
difficulties
they
caused
by
often
lengthy
roadworks,
my
Lord
Mayor.
It
is
said
that
most
people
are
only
two
paychecks
away
from
the
street.
We
recognize
that
there
is
a
moral
obligation
to
support
the
very
vulnerable
at
moments
of
extremes,
since
the
responsibility
for
such
emergency
payments
must
dissolve
to
local
authorities.
It
is
important
that
we
have
adequate
resources
reserved
for
this
purpose.
AB
We
rely
on
the
expertise
and
judgment
of
the
local
crisis
prevention
team
to
responsibly
manage
this
fund,
so
I
would
like
to
add
knowledge
and
commend
those
officers
who
undertake
this
challenging
and
demanding
work.
A
larger
provision
achieved
through
a
revised
increase
on
a
sliding
scale
in
license
fees
is
there
is
a
reasonable
way
forward
of
helping
more
people
and
I
hope.
All
members
today
were
put
aside
their
political
allegiances
and
support
this
change
to
the
mayor's
budget.
Thank
you.
AA
AC
You
my
lord
Maire
I,
was
just
going
to
share
a
short
answer.
Doubts
I
needed
this
fund
back
in
2014
at
the
time.
Even
then,
when
it
was
still
fully
funded,
I
was
in
that
20%
who
didn't
get
support
despite
having
lost
a
level
of
my
ESA
I
was
lucky
I
had
the
military
charities
to
turn
to,
please
don't
put
more
people
in
that
situation,
especially
with
the
introduction
of
universal
credit
to
the
city
later
this
year.
Thank
you.
AD
AD
A
AE
AE
This
amendment
proposes
one
such
change:
taking
a
small
amount
of
money
destined
for
capital
contingency
and
investing
it.
Instead
in
the
purchase
and
refurbishment
of
two
small
children's
homes,
financially,
it
is
unimpeachably
prudent,
a
modest
investment
secured
in
bricks
and
mortar,
with
a
return
on
investment
in
savings
delivered
equivalent
to
a
payback
time
of
around
five
years.
AE
AE
AE
The
plan
for
Children's
Services
is
to
move
more
to
prevention
and
early
intervention
to
help
families
wherever
possible,
to
stay
together.
In
the
long
run,
this
will
cost
less
as
well
as
being
better,
but
the
increased
costs
associated
with
the
change
come
now
and
the
savings
a
several
years
downstream.
AF
Financier
I'm
really
proud
to
second
this,
it's
a
great
example
of
how
we
can
use
dead
money
money,
that's
in
contingency
and
in
reserves,
to
do
something
good.
This
investment
in
fact
gives
one
of
the
best
returns
out
of
the
whole
budget.
We
currently
have
43
children
that
are
out
of
our
authority.
We
pay
for
them.
We
pay
forty
thousand
pound
more
a
year
each
because
of
the
cost
of
visiting
and
the
the
extra
costs
of
having
them
in
Glasgow
and
Cambridge.
This
proposal
to
invest
eight
hundred
thousand
could
re.
AF
Pat
creates
maybe
four
of
them
so
four
times
forty
thousand
that's
a
hundred
and
sixty
thousand
saving
per
year.
Eight
hundred
thousand
investment.
That's
a
20%
return
on
investment.
That
is
a
very
good
return
nowadays,
and
it's
not
only
do
using
deadly
state
money,
it's
prudent
because
it's
putting
money
into
bricks
and
mortar
and
it's
the
right
thing
to
do,
because
it's
improving
the
service
to
some
of
our
most
disadvantaged
and
I
hope.
This
is
a
good
lesson
for
how
we
should
use
some
of
our
reserves
and
contingencies
in
the
future.
Thank
you.
AG
Unable
to
be
met
in
our
present
children's
homes
as
many
need
very
specialized
care
within
a
much
smaller
setting
than
were
currently
able
to
offer.
We
have
had
discussions
in
the
past
about
how
we
could
provide
locally
based
provision
for
these
children
and
the
proposal
to
public
to
purchase
an
initially
small
number
of
houses,
for
this
purpose
is
to
be
welcomed.
AG
Indeed,
I
asked
if
this
could
be
a
possibility
some
years
ago,
so
it
would
be
good
to
see
this
mayor
made
a
reality
living
an
accommodation
that
more
closely
resembles
a
family
home
should
be
much
more
beneficial
than
having
to
live
a
considerable
distance
away
from
family
and
support
networks.
As
you
may
also
be
aware,
the
proposal
is
very
much
in
line
with
the
strengthening
families
transformation
program.
AG
G
G
It
is
distressing
when
a
vulnerable
child
is
placed
many
miles
away
from
this
city
and,
yes,
it
is
often
expensive.
However,
sometimes
it
is
in
the
best
interest
of
the
child
that
they
are
placed
away
from
the
city
if
we
are
removing
them
from
particular
risks.
So
it
is
never
the
case
that
one
size
fits
all
and
our
social
workers
need
a
range
of
options
at
their
disposal,
and
we
agree
that
some
of
our
children's
homes
are
too
large
and
they're,
not
always
in
the
best
locations
to
protect
children
properly.
G
AH
Thank
you,
I'll
try
and
do
this
or
that
coughing
the
Lib
Dems
stand
to
support
this
motion.
This
sorry,
this
amendment,
we
feel
that
the
amount
of
money
which
you
set
aside
is
going
to
be
quite
a
tough
task
to
actually
deliver
a
building
and
get
it
up
to
the
appropriate
standards.
But
if
there's
anything
within
the
authority
that
we
can
actually
refurbish,
then
I
think
it
is
probably
doable.
The
most
important
thing
I
think
with
this
amendment,
is
the
fact
that
it's
the
outcomes
for
the
young
people
themselves.
AH
So
I
think
that's
keeping
young
people
within
within
the
authority
has
got
to
be
far
better
than
looking
for
very
costly
placements
further
afield,
where
parents
find
it
very
difficult
to
actually
maintain
those
relationships
and
when
young
people
leave
care,
they've
got
to
come
back
and
re-establish
themselves
within
the
community,
so
the
Lib
Dems
will
be
supporting
this
amendment.
Thank
you.
AI
You
I'm
happy
to
be
supporting
this
amendment,
along
with
the
labor
group,
for
all
of
the
reasons
outlined
by
previous
speakers.
Bristol
is
one
of
the
few
authorities
to
maintain
our
own
children
homes.
Well,
as
many
other
authorities
are
now
fully
dependent
on
private
sector
resource
and
therefore
to
her
children's
home
market,
but
in
many
cases,
is
primarily
driven
by
profit.
At
the
moment,
we
have
five
existing
homes,
but
by
dint
of
design,
many
of
our
homes
are
not
suitable
for
housing.
Those
who
need
them
are
most
vulnerable
children
in
care.
AI
The
vast
majority
of
our
remaining
children
children's
homes
were
built
in
the
60s
on
our
larger
council
estates,
when
the
needs
of
our
looked
after
children
were
very
different,
many
more
children
were
in
homes,
rub
them
with
foster
carers.
Expectations
of
care
were
very
different,
with
most
homes
having
five
bedrooms
and
often
children
sharing
rooms.
If
we
fast
forward
to
today,
the
picture
is
very
different
of
our
675.
We
looked
after
children
in
Bristol
the
vast
majority
living
caring
family
homes
with
foster
carers.
AI
AI
For
some
children
being
outside
of
the
city
is
the
best
option.
This
might
be
the
result
of
a
court
order
and
for
the
safety
of
that
child
it
might
be
because
of
specific
health
needs,
mental
or
physical.
However,
in
most
cases
it
is
best
for
the
child
to
be
here
in
Bristol,
in
familiar
surroundings,
close
to
family
and
loved
ones
close
to
school
and,
of
course,
close
to
social
workers
and
other
support
services.
AI
Our
strengthening
families
program
to
which
councillor
commonly
alluded
in
her
amendment
is
a
key
element
of
the
budget
before
you
today
in
Bristol,
we
plan
to
create
a
whole
system
change
in
children
services
to
ensure
the
best
possible
care
and
outcomes
from
those
vulnerable
children
delivering
ten
two
bedrooms,
small
homes
or
flats
is
a
key
feature
of
the
strengthening
families
program.
This
will
enable
us
to
provide
suitable
accommodation
and
the
appropriate
staff
support
for
young
people
who
will
likely
have
complex
needs.
AI
So
I
thank
councillor
calmly
for
this
amendment,
which
will
enable
us
to
get
to
work
on
such
an
important
project
and
to
begin
transforming
our
children's
services
for
the
future.
I
would
also
like
to
take
this
opportunity
to
thank
members
from
all
the
opposite
parties,
especially
councillors,
Kambli
and
Stephens,
for
this,
for
the
support
that
they
have
shown
around
corporate
parenting.
AI
In
the
time
that
I've
been
in
post
I've
found
my
fellow
councillors
to
be
respectful
of
officers
and
their
expertise,
experience
and
commitment
to
our
children
and
to
be
as
determined
and
focused
as
I
am
to
ensure
the
best
possible
quality
of
life
for
I
looked
after
children
and
the
best
outcomes
for
them
as
they
move
through
education
and
into
adulthood.
I
hope
that
members
will
support
both
this
amendment
and
today's
budget,
a
budget
that
recognizes
our
duty
to
our
most
vulnerable
children
and
commits
to
investing
in
their
future.
A
A
A
AE
This
amendment
proposes
to
apply
a
small
charge
for
the
parking
permits
currently
given
free
to
councilors
senior
officers
and
older
people.
It
puts
the
money
raised
into
the
parks
budget
to
reduce
the
pressure
to
introduce
advertising
in
parks.
There
is
a
petition
that
already
has
almost
4,000
signatures,
calling
on
the
council
to
drop
proposals
to
introduce
commercial
advertising
into
Bristol's
parks
and
green
spaces.
So
this
amendment,
if
passed,
would
make
it
easier
for
the
administration
to
listen
to
the
thousands
of
people
who
feel
strongly
that
they
should
not
be
allowed
to
happen.
AE
I
realized
that
the
income
predicted
from
advertising
is
50,000,
while
I'm
only
estimating
a
30,000
income
from
this
charge.
However,
both
these
figures
are
just
estimates
and
mine
is
a
very
cautious
one,
predicting
that
only
around
half
of
those
who
currently
have
a
free
permit
would
be
willing
to
pay
for
one.
AE
To
be
honest,
I
struggled
to
see
why
this
proposal
is
so
controversial.
Our
Constitution
is
clear.
The
basic
allowance
for
councilors
should
cover
transport
costs
within
Bristol,
and
we
are
not
meant
to
receive
any
additional
funding
for
transport.
We
seem
to
have
no
problem
with
following
this
rule
when
it
comes
to
councillors
who
use
public
transport.
So
why
are
we
going
against
our
own
constitution
when
it
comes
to
councillors
who
drive
our
corporate
strategy?
AE
The
one
that
we've
just
accepted
in
this
meeting
highlights
the
need
to
tackle
congestion
and
has
an
increase
in
public
transport
passenger
numbers
as
an
indicator
of
success.
A
parking
strategy
has,
amongst
its
objectives,
reduce
unnecessary
use
of
private
cars,
especially
in
the
city
center,
and
encourage
alternative
modes
of
transport.
If
these
are
our
goals,
it
is
completely
inappropriate
to
spend
money
to
encourage
car
driving
and
make
public
transport
relatively
less
attractive.
AE
This
subsidy
is
not
given
just
to
counselors
and
older
people,
but
to
senior
officers
too.
Yes,
those
staff
work
very
hard
and
are
often
required
to
attend
evening
meetings,
but
so
do
many
other
staff
who
don't
get
free
parking.
How
do
we
justify
a
regressive
subsidy
that
is
given
only
to
the
highest
paid.
AE
In
summary,
it
is
not
fair
to
subsidize
car
drivers
and
not
public
transport
users.
It
is
not
fair
to
have
one
rule
for
councilors
and
another
for
everyone
else.
It
is
not
fair
to
subsidize
the
best-paid
council
staff
and
not
those
on
lower
salaries.
It
is
not
fair
to
take
away
the
peaceful
escape
of
an
ad-free
Park
from
those
who
are
struggling
at
the
sharp
end
of
our
society's
relentless
pressure
to
consume.
This
amendment
offers
you
the
opportunity
to
redress
all
these
unfairness
--is
in
one
go.
AJ
Motion
I'll,
second,
that
emotion
for
you,
Leslie,
no
I'm
rising
to
second
this
amendment
right,
partly
because
shock
horror
serves
you,
so
he
may
know,
I
do
actually
own
a
car
and
I
do
want
to
cage
and
use
it
round.
The
back
I've
probably
had
the
pleasure
of
nearly
running
a
few
of
you
over
in
the
past
by
accident.
This
has
been
just
to
rehearse
some
of
the
argument
that
happened
last
year.
AJ
This
was
in
some
court
has
been
interpreted
on
it
attack
on
counselors,
and
it
absolutely
isn't
that
we
absolutely
accept
counselors
worked
really
hard,
and
we
also
accept
that
some
counselors
live
in
peripheral
wards
where
they
have
longer
distances
to
travel.
This
is
not
an
attack
on
counselors,
however.
We
all
know
that
our
allowances
are
there
to
cover
all
our
travel
costs
within
the
city.
As
ellen
has
pointed
out,
we
don't
get
our
bus
fares
paid
for
I've
caught
buses
all
over
the
city
and
come
to
that.
AJ
We
don't
get
our
shoe-leather
or
bike
services
paid
for
either.
So
I
really
do
struggle
understand
why
this
causes
such
a
brouhaha.
It's
a
really
small
amount
of
money
and
it's
a
relatively
small
deal
for
councillors.
What
we're
proposing
is
that
even
that
councillors
pay
commercial
rates
for
parking
just
that
the
contributions
made.
We've
also
pointed
out
the
blue
badge
holders
and
those
with
caring
responsibilities
or
special
cases
and
other
caters
looked
out.
They'll
probably
be
exempt.
AJ
It's
not
that
scary
and
it'll
help
plug
some
of
the
gaps
in
our
parks,
and
we
do
without
our
sandwiches
these
days,
which
is
a
source
of
some
grief
to
serve.
You
know
me
it's
it's
a
terrible
situation
and
we
can
do
without
free
car
parking
as
well.
So
please,
let's
do
us
all
a
favor
and
vote
for
this
amendment.
Thank
you.
AK
Thank
you.
My
little
man
I
rise
to
speak
on
this
amendment.
Let's
just
steal
for
a
minute
those
numbers
on
this
one
actually
stack
up.
Now:
that's
not
that's
not
to
make
30,000
pounds
you
need
to
sell
50
passes
to
sell
50
passes
if
we
assume
the
greens
are
gonna,
be
you
know
nice
and
not
part
of
nasty
cars
in
the
car
park.
In
the
back
of
the
council
house
that
takes
13
out.
AK
No
waiting,
so
that
means
you're
gonna
underperform.
You
might
like
about
20,000
pounds
how
this
got
past
the
one
five
one
officer
I,
don't
know
but
hey
here.
It
is,
but
that's
not
my
real
objection.
My
real
objection
is
this.
The
green
group
of
counselors
meet
at
9:30
every
Friday
morning
in
the
council
house
we're
all
at
work.
So
the
thing
is.
AK
But
the
thing
is
yo
you
wish
to
discriminate,
it
seems
to
me
against
people
actually
have
jobs.
Moreover,
you
do
wish
to
discriminate
against
counselors
who
represent
wards
in
them
on
the
periphery
of
the
city.
You
wish
to
discriminate
against
working-class
counselors
you'll
make
all
these
left
sounding
noises
and
its
trash.
You
wish
to
discriminate
against
working-class
counselors
for
the
sake
of
the
bloody
bicycle.
Listen.
This
is
not
an
unnecessary
use
of
cars.
Democracy
is
not
an
unnecessary
use
of
cars.
The
green
message
to
everybody
else
in
the
city
is
I'm.
H
Thank
you
very
much.
Iii
just
went
in
my
bag.
I
have
a
membership
form
for
council
of
brain.
If
he
wants
it,
oh
well,
it's
it
it's
one
of
those
where
I
thought
after
today,
we'd
all
be
conciliatory
and
obviously
that
somehow
completely
gone
I
think
probably
died
without
Nene
it's
early,
but
my
brain
you've
certainly
skippered.
H
It
now
I'm
not
supporting
it,
but
that
would
be
no
surprise
to
any
of
you
at
all
and
actually
I
would
echo
what
Mark
was
saying
for
those
of
us
that
work
for
those
who
represent
Awards
on
the
outskirts
of
the
city.
You
have
to
be
able
to
shuttle
between
your
community,
your
workplace
and
the
council,
and
you
can't
rely
on
public
transport
to
do
that,
because
it
doesn't
fall
yeah,
but
we're
talking
three
venues.
You
have
to
move
around
so
actually
shuttling
between
the
three.
H
You
can't
wait
for
public
transport
to
arrive
and
take
you
and
potentially
get
two
or
three
connections,
everything
else.
It
doesn't
work
for
us
to
discharge
our
duties
as
councilors
and
if
we
limit
that
possibility,
we
limit
the
number
of
people
that
actually
can
be
councilors,
because
they
can't
do
it
efficiently
in
conjunction
with
their
work,
life,
councilors,
countless
I'm
afraid
the
amendment
only
looks
to
save
30,000.
It
doesn't
have
quite
what
we
need
to
fix
the
bus
network,
but
so
I,
don't
think.
H
I
could
support
this,
for
the
simple
reason
that
if
we
did
it
I
think
we
would
limit
the
scope
of
people
that
could
become
counselors.
I
was
certain
limit.
The
ability
for
me
to
represent
my
community
and
my
ward
and
discharge
my
duties,
and
none
of
us
would
be
able
to
work
properly
in
the
jobs
that
we
actually
do
and
women
and,
if
and
when
our
political
careers,
because
they
all
end
in
failure,
is
this
race.
We
have
to
go
back
to
those
jobs.
We
can't
just
abandon
them
and
leave
them
so
I'm.
H
AL
You
Lord
man,
so
it's
Groundhog
Day
again.
This
is
basically
the
same
amendment
as
last
year
and
I've
got
to
say
that
I'm
a
bit
disappointed
but
I'm,
not
surprised
because
when
I
look
at
the
green
group
over
there,
hi
guys
I
immediately
see
that
you
all
represent
wards
that
are
walkable
from
this
building
with
excellent
public
transport.
AL
Now,
you
all
look
fairly
able-bodied,
so
none
of
you
really
have
any
clue
what
it's
like
to
represent
a
ward
out
on
the
fringes
of
the
city
too
far
away
to
walk
or
cycle
in
an
area
with
little
or
no
public
transport,
and
here
you
are
all
very
pleased
with
yourselves
for
deliberately
making
life
harder
for
councillors
in
that
situation,
knowing
full
well
that
it
won't
affect
any
of
you.
It
won't
affect
me
either
because
I
walk
everywhere.
I
have
that
privilege,
but
I
can
at
least
imagine
being
in
a
different
situation.
AL
So
this
amendment
I'm
afraid
is
a
bit
of
virtue,
signaling
signaling,
on
something
that
you
know
won't
affect
you
and
what's
more,
this
amendment
doesn't
even
ever
raise
any
extra
money.
It
just
replaces
existing
money
coming
from
advertising,
how
timid,
but
we
can
see
the
politics
here
in
the
Lib
Dems.
We
won't
be
voting
against
this
because
we're
not
going
to
walk
into
your
trap.
We
didn't
vote
against
it
last
year.
Either
you
lied
in
your
press
release
when
you
said
that
we
did.
You
were
so
arrogant
in
your
moral
superiority
on
that.
AL
You
couldn't
even
be
bothered
to
spend
20
seconds
looking
at
the
voting
record.
So
in
a
sense
it
hardly
matters
how
we
vote,
because
you
always
press
release
next
year
we'll
make
up
what
it
wants
anyway,
but
we're
not
going
this.
We
don't
we
don't.
We
don't
need
to
lie
and
press
releases
charlie
we're
not
going
to
vote
against
this,
but
I
do
hope.
You'll
think
a
bit
deeper
before
repeating
this
next
year.
F
Obvious
I'll
be
a
bit
nicer
than
that
and
I
think.
Actually.
So,
as
someone
someone
who
someone
who
lives
on
the
outskirts
of
the
city
as
kids
uses
the
bus
four
days
a
week
on
the
fifth
day
of
the
week
when
I
have
child
would
work,
school
run
to
school
runs
to
do
plus
+
work
+
this
I
Drive
in
and
if
I
were
to
pay
for
a
car
parking
pass
for
the
year.
I'd,
probably
move
to
driving
in
everyday,
because
I'm,
not
gonna,
pay
for
a
car
parking
pass.
F
A
A
AF
AF
I've
worked
very
closely
with
the
cabinet
member
councillor,
Nicola
Beach
and
we've
come
up
with
an
approach
to
implementation
which,
if,
if
a
proof,
the
amendments
approved
we'll
be
able
to
discuss
with
the
cross-party
working
group,
finance
kindly
suggested
a
better
way
of
funding
this
from
planning
fees.
The
ring-fenced
so
I'm
happy
to
go
with
that.
AF
What's
in
the
new
local
plan,
consultation
is
tremendous
progress
regarding
university
accommodation
building
it
either
on
the
campus
or
in
us
off-site,
but
specialist
accommodation
where
communities
say
it's
desirable.
The
university
do
not
want
students
in
any
new
students
in
HMOs,
students
are
even
complaining
about
houses
of
Multiple.
Occupation
was
really
that
bad
value
for
money
and,
let's
think
about
the
other
60,000
people
of
Bristol
they'll,
have
to
put
with
that
as
well,
so
we're
trying
to
protect
the
damage
that
could
be
done.
AF
The
local
plan
is
due
to
come
out
in
2020,
but
it
takes
a
week
or
so
to
convert
what
was
a
home
into
an
HMO.
So
we
need
to
be
quick.
The
evidence
we
need
is
to
support
the
local
plan
and
any
planning
practice
notes
or
documents
that
need
to
come
out
sooner
without
the
evidence.
You
can
be
sure
that
these
policies
in
the
local
plan
will
go
to
appeal
and
fail.
AF
The
is
so
much
money
in
converting
homes
and
accommodation
to
student
students
thirty-three
thousand
pound
a
year,
they're
bound
to
be
tested,
so
the
evidence
needed
is
to
find
out
where
the
HMOs
currently
are.
Existing
student
schemes
are
existing
negative
impacts,
which
we
know
all
about
in
North,
Bristol
and
community
concerns.
If
we
don't
do
this,
we
will
see
rents
a
three
thousand
pound
a
month
rises
of
10%,
more
council
tax
exemptions,
and
this
is
going
to
hit
tatta
down
wind
Mill
Hill.
You.
AF
AM
Thank
you,
Lord
Mayor
I'm,
very
pleased
to
be
able
to
provide
my
support
and
the
labor
group
support
for
Clive's
amendment
and
Clive
I
must
say
it's
been
a
delight
working
with
you
on
the
planning
committee
over
the
past
two
years,
I'm
very
passionate
about
planning
I,
mean
I,
know
I
need
to
get
out
more.
But
honestly,
it's
one
of
the
aspects
of
this
role
that
found
most
rewarding
on
the
planning
committees.
AM
We
feel
that
we
can
have
real
influence
over
how
our
city
is
developing
and
it's
an
exciting
time
to
be
involved
in
this
work,
as
many
major
projects
take
shape.
This
is
concurrent
with
Bristol's
population
changing
which
provides
both
pressures
and
opportunities.
The
local
plan
review
is
addressing
how
we
can
manage
this
change
in
a
way
that
meets
our
aspiration
to
be
an
inclusive
City
in
an
ideal
world.
Our
planning
policies
would
provide
assurance
that
no
aspect
of
our
city's
development
would
be
outside
of
our
control
and
oversight.
AM
However,
to
date,
there
is
one
factor
which
is
complicating
this
picture,
and
that
is
the
university's
expansion
of
student
numbers.
Now
there
are
many
benefits
to
having
universities
in
Bristol,
but
equally
there
are
downsides
and
we
believe
it's
not
fair.
If
communities
have
to
be
left
to
pick
up
the
pieces,
if
the
university
had
agreed
their
expansion
with
the
council
up
front,
perhaps
we'd
have
a
different
story
to
tell.
Unfortunately,
they've
come
to
us
very
late.
In
the
day.
Still
the
local
plan
review
sets
out
an
option
in
which
we
sign
off
on
their
growth.
AM
There
is
also
an
option
if
they
are
unwilling
to
work
with
us.
Taking
the
current
growth
figures
as
they
stand,
student
numbers
are
increasing
substantially,
so
our
priority
must
be
policy
which
promotes
genuinely
mixed
and
balanced
communities.
We're
grateful
to
all
the
councillors
that
supported
in
the
process
of
creating
our
draft
local
plan.
AM
The
plan
includes
strong
policies
on
student
housing,
including
expectations
around
affordable
housing
contributions,
active
frontages
and
mixed
uses
on
larger
developments,
and
we're
going
further
to
anticipate
the
impact
of
the
new
Bristol
temporal
court
to
a
campus
article
for
directions
relating
to
HMO.
Conversions
will
be
prepared
for
tatra
down
the
dings
and
are
nos
fail,
I'm,
proud
to
be
part
of
a
council
putting
labour
values
into
practice,
making
profiteering
developers
pay
and
protecting
communities.
We
must
acknowledge
acknowledge,
though,
that
realizing
the
aspirations
set
out
in
planning
policies
is
not
always
straightforward.
AM
AN
Thank
you.
My
little
mare
can
I
say
that
we
support
this
amendment
and
I.
Don't
wish
to
go
over
the
points
that
have
been
said
because
I
agree
wholeheartedly
with
the
points
have
been
made.
I
think
one's
got
to
just
have
a
look
at
the
situation
and
try
to
understand
it
and
I
use
this
opportunity
to
do
so.
AN
Yes,
the
numbers
of
students
in
Bristol
University
will
grow,
but
you
have
to
look
at
where
they're
coming
from
that
will
be
in
the
Universities
and
figures
from
overseas
students
and
master's
degrees,
and
their
housing
needs
are
completely
different
to
note
the
ordinary
student
coming
from
the
UK
they
want
to
be,
and
here
for
the
four
years.
Maybe
they
want
a
more
permanent
residents
than
holds
one
year
and
then
on,
and
they
want
purpose
bill
and
they
want
it
near
the
city
center.
So
there
will
be
a
lot
of
demand
and
different
demand.
AN
Tribe
was
absolutely
right.
It
is
the
evidence
that
we
are
talking
about
at
this
moment
and
if
we
can
put
a
planner
at
this
stage,
working
with
the
university
in
order
to
coordinate
and
work
with
them
closely.
I
think
that
would
be
a
greater
Vantage,
an
economic
benefit
to
us
as
well.
So
a
lot
of
thing,
the
only
thing
I
didn't
quite
agree
with
tri-band.
He
might
not
have
meant
it,
but
you
said
we
can't
trust
the
University.
Perhaps
that's
because
we're
not
talking
to
them
enough
and
not
working
with
them
enough.
AN
Q
You
my
lord
Matt,
well
I'm,
going
to
disagree
with.
What's
just
been
said,
there
has
been
a
dialogue
with
the
universities
recently
and
there
has
been
a
policy,
that's
been
generated,
which
I
support
and
have
made
it
very
clear,
I
support
for
an
initiative
that
will
deliver
more
privately
built,
purpose-built
student
flats
in
places
which
this
city
wants
to
see
them
I'm
very
supportive
of
that
the
problem
there
are
two
problems.
Q
The
first
problem
is
that
the
universities
can
only
deliver
that
promise
by
working
through
private
developers,
and
we
know
full
well
at
the
moment
that
private
developers
have
got
planning
approvals
which
they're
not
building
in
this
and
they'll.
Do
it
when
it
suits
them.
The
university
can't
make
that
happen,
and
the
university
said
it
won't
make
that
happen
with
private
developers.
Q
So
the
second
problem
is,
and
unless
you
tilt
adjust
or
somehow
make
the
market
less
desirable
for
HMOs,
because
they're
much
cheaper
and
as
Clive
said,
you
can
knock
them
up
very
very
quickly.
They
are
going
to
punch
a
hole
in
the
bottom
of
that
ship
that
we're
trying
to
get
out
there
and
launch
and
that's
where
we
need
to
really
put
more
than
a
half
of
the
tarp
frankly
to
make
sure
that
that
ship
floats
now.
Q
The
second
thing
that
has
to
be
considered
about
that
is
that,
if
we're
going
to
be
doing
an
article
for
direction
and
I
have
article
four
directions
in
my
warden
and
Ward's
around
us,
that
is
on
the
basis
of
established
evidence.
The
problem
counsel,
don't
even
is
that
in
the
areas
that
we're
most
worried
about
window
hill
totter
down-
maybe
some
Gorge,
maybe
Eastern.
We
don't
have
that
number
of
HMOs
at
the
moment,
not
enough
to
actually
deliver
a
cast-iron
article
for
direction
now.
Q
I'm
going
to
support
this
motion
and
I'd
be
amazed
if
anybody
thought
I
wouldn't
because
you
know
how
I
feel
about
this.
But
it's
not
enough.
We
need
to
be
much
more
robust
in
the
way
that
we
drive
this
policy
forward
in
order
to
dis,
encourage
developers
who
are
actually
less
related
to
the
universities
than
the
private
developers
would
be,
who
are
building
purpose-built
flats
in
order
to
discourage
them
from
creating
the
HMOs
which
will
bash
the
cider
of
this
ship
that
we're
trying
to
make
work.
Q
Q
We
won't
do
it
by
a
half-hearted
approach
to
trying
to
pretend
that
we're
that
we're
doing
this,
we've
actually
got
to
do
it
with
all
the
evidence
and
then
we'll
still
have
a
fight
on
the
appeals
will
still
come
against
us,
but
we
have
got
to
be
as
robust
as
possible
if
the
I
see
of
the
of
counselor,
Beach
and
her
advisors
is
gonna.
Work
and
I've
already
said.
I
support
it,
but
I
can
only
support
it.
If
I
know
that
we've
got
our
back
covered
as
well
to
make
sure
it
floats
Thank
You.
AO
Thank
you
very
much.
I'm
I
stand
to
support
the
amendment
taking
funds
generated
by
planning
fees
to
bolster
the
capacity
we
have
in
my
planning
team
to
develop
an
implement
this
new
policy.
This
issue
has
been
covered
by
all
the
earliest
speakers,
so
I'll
keep
this
quite
brief.
I
have
to
steal
the
line
from
Paul
Smith
here
that
he
always
says
always
said
quite
often
that
no
one
ever
campaigns
for
planners,
but
here
we
have
a
man
that
does
so
hats
off
to
Clive.
AO
Thank
you
for
this
amendment
and
it
really
does
support
the
clear
direction
I've
given
to
officers
since
taking
on
this
portfolio
to
get
to
grips
with
this
long-standing
issue
of
uncontrolled
growth.
We
have
to
front
up
these
issues
at
the
University
directly
and
protect
the
communities
affected
by
houses
of
multiple
occupancy,
both
close
to
existing
precincts
and
in
future
campuses
near
Temple
Meads.
A
spoken
full
Council
in
December
and
I
gave
an
update
on
the
matter
of
managing
student
growth.
AO
A
A
G
My
lord
man
I'm
proposing
the
conservative
amendments
on
these
benches.
We
acknowledge
that
times
are
tough
in
local
government.
Yes,
we
do
acknowledge
it
and,
yes,
we
get
it,
which
is
why
we
as
a
group,
have
made
representations
to
relevant
cabinet
ministers
both
on
our
own
as
a
Bristol
group
and
via
the
LGA.
So
actually,
some
of
you
taking
your
little
pops
you're
preaching
to
the
choir
but
running
a
council,
is
about
setting
priorities.
G
G
So
we
have
to
address
the
issue
of
the
council
tax
reduction
scheme.
Currently
it
is
the
most
generous
of
all
our
core
cities.
So
far,
all
labor
run
cities
have
made
some
adjustments
and
that's
why
we
are
proposing
a
modest
scheme
with
caveats
and
produc
protections
for
the
most
vulnerable,
the
disabled
and
the
elderly.
We
would
also
like
to
review
student
contributions.
We
will
continue
to
work
for
that.
G
G
Now
the
mayor
initially
proposed
this
in
the
early
stages
of
budget
design,
but
then
he
drops
it
at
the
festival
of
ideas
just
for
a
year.
So
does
that
mean
it's
coming
in
next
year?
We
don't
know,
but
we
can't
flip-flop
on
this
every
year.
We've
got
to
get
on
with
this.
Sadly,
it
must
be
done
because
we
think
protecting
universal
services
is
too
important.
G
So
now
it's
about
refocusing
our
priorities
because
running
a
council
is
about
core
services.
When
things
are
tight
residents,
don't
care
about
vanity
projects,
global
Parliament's
of
Mayors
trips
here
and
there.
In
fact,
when
I
talked
to
Bristow,
lian's
they're,
pretty
sick
of
them,
so
a
Brussels
office
is
unfortunately
a
fantasy
project.
We
can
no
longer
afford.
It
has
not
delivered
much.
When
I
speak
to
colleagues
in
Birmingham
they
have
seen
so
much.
Eu
money
come
their
way.
G
G
We
have
seen
ill-thought-out
consultations
have
to
be
shelved
and
redesigned
every
month
we
hear
about
another
thought.
Peace,
roundtable,
discussion,
commissioning
of
another
expensive
consultant
I,
would
admit,
urge
this
administration
to
start
looking
at
existing
research,
learn
from
other
local
authorities,
capitalise
on
what
other
people
have
found
out,
rather
than
trying
to
reinvent
the
wheel,
and
then
often
you
just
dress
it
up
in
a
jolly
press
release.
Our
reduction
proposals
are
based
on
the
information
that
we
could
see.
In
the
figures.
We
can't
see
everything
around
the
mayor's
decreased
discretionary
spend
in
total.
G
G
They
want
well-managed
parks,
places
to
think
and
exercise,
not
the
thought,
pieces
and
consultation
exercises
residents
want
to
feel
safe
on
their
streets
and
feel
part
of
their
communities,
which
is
why
we'd
spend
the
money
on
PCSOs
and
well-being
grants
we
believe
in
localism
building
communities,
because
that
improves
quality
of
life,
feeling
of
belonging
and
well-being.
We
don't
need
happy
city
indexes.
We
just
need
to
facilitate
our
citizens
to
make
a
happy
City
we're
a
UNESCO
learning
city
supposedly
committed
to
lifelong
learning.
Well,
university
library,
the
universal
library
access
means
the
commitment
to
lifelong
learning.
G
It
means
access
to
education,
social
mobility
for
the
young
and
disadvantaged.
It
means
mental
stimulation
and
connection
for
the
elderly.
Do
we
need
to
spay
a
city,
proud
poet
and
the
Welsh
poet?
Does
it
for
nothing
we're
paying
nearly
as
much
as
the
national
poet
laureate
except
the
barrel
of
sherry.
A
G
Mayor
often
talks
about
the
collective
costs
of
diminished
mental
and
physical
health
and
well-being,
and
we
agree,
but
the
cost
of
cutting
access
to
libraries
parks
and
help
for
communities
to
control
their
own
priorities
is
to
see
costs
arising
from
elsewhere.
When
you
see
increased
isolation,
reduce
social
mobility
and
poorer
health
in
the
young
and
old,
so
we're
just
proposing
some
very
simple
stuff:
no
chat,
no
spin,
no
jaunts,
no
vanity
getting
stuff
done
for
Bristol,
because
quality
services
speak
loudly
for
themselves.
AP
You
my
lord
mayor
and
I,
rise
to
second
this
budget
amendment
and
to
endorse
the
remarks
made
by
my
colleague,
Claire
hiss
cought.
There
are
times
when
it
makes
sense
to
put
petty
party
politics
to
one
side
and
to
actually
do
the
right
thing.
We
all
know
that
many
voters
feel
totally
disengaged
from
the
political
process.
The
very
low
response
to
the
council's
budget
consultation
provides
tangible
evidence.
This
public
disengagement
shames
the
soil.
So,
as
a
group,
we've
been
determined
to
go
out
and
speak
to
residents
directly.
AP
This
amendment
follows
extensive
consultation
with
residents
ie
the
people
who
pay
the
council
tax
and
quite
rightly,
expect
certain
things
in
exchange.
I
wrote
tested
this
very
amendment
at
a
public
meeting
recently
and
it
received
almost
universal
support.
People
expect
the
council
to
provide
certain
core
services.
These
include
a
decent
library
service,
well
maintained
municipal
parks
and
safe
streets.
It's
not
asking
too
much.
For
heaven's
sake.
AP
Our
amendment
does
all
this
and
additionally
put
some
money
back
into
local
communities
via
the
restoration
of
the
well-being,
grants
which
empower
local
communities
and
make
them
feel
directly
in
control
of
at
least
some
of
the
public
purse
having
effectively
killed
off
neighborhood
partnerships,
the
council
risks
further
alienating
residents
and
hence
the
importance
of
this
measure
to
try
and
build
some
bridges
with
local
people,
as
they
say
in
Yorkshire,
from
which
my
wife
hails,
you
don't
get
out
for
nowt.
So
how
is
this
amendment
being
funded
and
what
will
council
taxpayers
make
of
it?
AP
Well,
I,
don't
think
many
Bristol
residents
will
Ament
the
cuts
to
the
PR
budget
and
the
Brussels
office,
and
many
residents,
whilst
they
enjoy
poetry,
don't
see
a
poet
laureate
as
a
core
council
service
funded
by
council
tax.
I
also
think
the
amendment
to
the
council
tax
reduction
scheme
to
bring
it
into
line
with
other
core
cities
will
be
understood.
AP
J
J
This
is
jaw-dropping
hypocrisy,
as
the
Labour
motion
against
Authority
moved
so
well
by
councillor
Davis
last
December
noted,
Avon
and
Somerset
police
are
now
at
a
tipping
point,
having
already
been
forced
to
make
65
million
pounds
worth
of
cuts
since
2010
and
there's
another
17
million
cuts
expected
from
them
by
20,
21,
22
and
that's
simply
not
sustainable.
Even
a
Somerset
has
already
lost
nearly
700
police
officers,
thanks
to
the
tourists
nationally.
J
All,
as
part
were
disgraceful
20,000
cut
to
police
officer
numbers
nationally,
all
while
Theresa
May
has
been
Home,
Secretary
and
then
Prime
Minister
should
surprise,
no
one
that
crime
is
rising.
It
always
does
when
the
toys
were
in
power
nationally.
So
much
for
the
party
of
law
and
order.
Data
for
the
Bristol
City
area
collated
by
third
parties
is
utterly
damning.
December
2015
saw
4475
crimes
reported
in
this
city
following
December
4706,
compared
to
4,000
878
reported
last
December,
which
is
the
latest
data.
We
have.
J
Let's
look
at
what
the
impact
is
on
my
ward,
shall
we,
the
official
police?
The
UK
website,
shows
that
in
2017,
instant
Gorge
troopers
Hill,
there
were
317
crimes
reported
to
the
police,
of
which
71
counts
were
anti-social.
Behavior
there
are
32
burglaries,
including
a
spate
in
third
of
all
cases
of
criminal
damage,
an
arson,
32
vehicle
crimes
and
HTP
violent
and/or
sexual
offenses.
That
I
find
very
well.
The
government's
austerity
is
putting
the
safety
of
my
constituents
at
risk,
and
the
figures
prove
it.
J
Your
Amendment
is
like
reducing
a
police
to
begging
and
throw
them
some
of
your
loose
change.
It's
bit
of
an
insult.
Only
last
week,
I
had
constituents
rights
me
concerned
that
our
excellent
beat
manager
is
expected
to
look
after
the
entire
Sir
Georges
area,
three
wards
with
minimal.
If
any
support,
if
you
really
want
to
help
police
funding,
they
put
pressure
on
your
own
government
demand.
They
fund
police
forces
everywhere
with
enough
funds
to
do
the
job
of
protecting
our
public
properly.
J
You
can
even
sign
carry
McCarthy's
petition
on
the
matter.
Labour
nationally
has
promised
to
bring
back
ten
thousand
police
officers,
lower
three
thousand
firefighters,
three
thousand
more
police
officers,
1,500
intelligence
staff
and
five
hundred
Border
Agency
staff,
and
while
we
were
in
power
nationally
crime
went
down
with
a
real
party
of
law
and
order.
Now.
So,
while
we're
not
back
in
the
in
amendment,
my
colleague
caster
tink
nur
will
go
through
the
other
issues
that
as
a
party,
we
also
have
with
it.
J
AQ
When
I
read
this
dispiriting
mean
little
package
of
an
amendment,
I
was
really
quite
depressed,
but
I
not
nearly
as
depressed
as
I
am
now.
Having
heard
the
two
proposals
this
afternoon,
it's
not
about
refocusing
spin,
it's
short-sighted
and
it's
punitive
and
in
its
some
it
reveals
the
Tory
ideology,
but
in
its
elements,
is
where
you
can
really
see
what
the
game
is
about.
So
let
me
take
you
through
each
of
the
elements.
The
first
one
is
is
misguided.
AQ
AQ
The
brussels
office
is
supported
by
funding
from
the
university
who
have
said
that
they
would
withdraw
that
funding
if
there
was
no
political
support
for
that.
So
why
would
we
do
that?
It's
it's
it's
logically,
it's
financially
silly!
Then
let
me
take
you
onto
the
next
one.
This
idea
of
withdrawing
council
consultation
and
PR
by
reducing
it
by
50%
I
know.
A
lot
of
people
would
say
that
it's
disappointing
that
we
probably
don't
have
enough
public
engagement
and
I
know
myself
when
I
read
the
consultation
to
the
the
corporate
strategy.
AQ
The
figures
were
disappointing,
but
you
know
there's
no
point
in
being
regressive
and
closing
everything
down
and
being
an
authoritarian.
What
I
took
from
that
and
I
thought
was
really
good.
Was
the
the
null
Pilate
where
people
actually
went
out
to
the
shopping
centre
and
the
results
from
that
were
fantastic?
AQ
AL
Thank
you,
Lord
man,
all
right
I
should
have
I,
should
have
prepared
a
song
or
something
but
sadly,
sadly,
I
haven't
I.
I
didn't
come
prepared
with
any
musical
instruments,
but
it's
it's.
It's
Groundhog,
Day
part
two
I'm
afraid
because
I'm
speaking
again
now
on
the
on
the
same
amendment
as
I
did
last
year,
it
goes
without
saying
that
we
like,
where
the
money
would
be
going
in
this
amendment.
Libraries,
great
we've
all
talked
at
length
about
libraries,
PCSOs
excellent,
notwithstanding
the
points
made
earlier
by
fabian
and
parks
as
well.
Of
course
fantastic.
AL
We
love
all
that,
but
any
appreciation
does
end
there
because
look
where
the
money
is
coming
from.
It's
coming
from
the
poorest
people
in
the
city,
the
council
tax
reduction
provides
relief
to
many
of
the
most
needy
people
in
the
city.
It's
necessary,
because
council
tax
is
a
very
unfair
tax.
It's
a
regressive
tax.
The
Lib
Dems
have
always
said
this
and
we've
always
opposed
it.
AL
I
feel
very
sorry
for
other
cities
that
they
haven't
got
this
one
hundred
percent
scheme
that
we
have
that's
why
Bristol
is
different.
We
think
about
these
things
a
bit
more
and
we
do
them
differently,
but
actually,
having
looked
at
this
amendment,
I
think
it
might
even
be
worse
than
last
year's,
because
you're
also
cutting
the
consultation
budget
and
we've
seen
how
important
consultation
is
on
the
mayor's
unwelcomed
libraries
parks
and,
of
course,
it's
council
tax
reduction
plans.
AL
Now
it
was
consultations
on
all
of
those
things
that
is,
enabling
people
in
encouraging
people
to
to
rise
up
and
oppose
them
and
to
let
the
council
know
their
views,
and
now
you
want
to
cut
consultation
when
it's
more
important
than
ever,
because
so
many
other
things
have
been
cut.
So
no
thanks.
The
Lib
Dem
group
is
voting
against
this
event.
Amendment.
AR
Thank
you
might
look
mayor
well,
I'm,
very
sorry,
Claire,
but
we
are
going
to
vote
against
as
well.
This
amendment
seems
to
comprise
a
random
selection
of
small-scale
small-minded
ideas
cobbled
together,
which
is
no
way
to
deal
with
the
budget
of
a
major
city.
First,
abolishing
a
brussels
office.
That's
madness!
Now
I
know
the
Tories
don't
want
to
want
to
avoid
thinking
about
which
disaster
a
brexit
too
much.
AR
I,
don't
blame
you,
since
you
brought
this
on
us,
but
costing
a
brick
Bob
Russell's
office
at
the
very
moment
when
we
need
maximum
information
and
understanding
of
the
implications
for
our
global
city
would
be
a
very,
very
negative
step,
and
even
during
the
year
ahead,
there
will
be
opportunities
for
to
bid
for
EU
programs
which
could
bring
in
millions
of
pounds
to
our
city,
to
tackle
some
of
its
problems,
many
of
which
arise
for
Tory
policies.
So
it
seems
to
me
this
is
costing
upon
those
to
spite
our
face.
It
makes
no
sense.
AR
AR
Many
of
us
were
deeply
moved
by
poem
written
by
our
previous
city,
poet,
Mallos
chambers,
through
amazing,
aughh,
Eurasian,
and
think
he's
played
at
an
enormous
ly,
important
role
in
the
cultural
life
of
a
city.
That's
a
very
big
role
for
a
very
small
sum.
This
amendment
looks
petty
in
both
attitude
and
in
result,
what
sort
of
signal
do
you
propose
by
cutting
this?
Finally,
the
changes
of
a
council
tax
reduction
scheme.
Again
other
colleagues
in
the
chamber
pointed
out.
AR
This
is
going
to
hit
vme
communities,
people
with
disabilities
and
sing
women
more
than
anybody
else
again.
A
regressive
proposal
for
an
already
regressive
tax
and
the
wrong
approach
in
this
still
highly
unequal
City
I
ask
everyone
here
to
vote
against
these
Tory
amendments,
and
let's
ask
our
conservative
colleagues
to
do
something
else
more
positive.
Instead,
I
want
you
to
put
greater
pressure
on
your
government
colleagues
in
the
to
reverse
for
policies,
which
is
a
publicity
Council
in
this
position
in
the
first
place,
help
us
to
do
that.
Thank
You.
AJ
Think
we
all
know
which
way
this
one's
going,
that
there
we
go
I'll
keep
it
short.
It's
no
surprise.
The
Green
Party
won't
be
supporting
this
amendment,
not
only
for
the
reasons
outlined
by
Paula,
but
also
because
this
amendment
suggests
raising
no
less
than
two
and
a
half
million
pounds
from
the
council
tax
reduction
scheme.
AJ
Now,
my
guess
is
that
pretty
much
everyone
in
this
room
would
like
to
do
all
we
can
to
support
parks
and
libraries,
which
is
mainly
where
the
money
would
go
to,
but
shaking
what
seems
to
be
viewed
as
a
magical
money
tree
and
afzal.
You
use
my
phrase
I'm,
so
upset
you
got
there
first,
but
shaking
this
particular
tree.
The
CTRs
is
absolutely
unacceptable.
Let's
remind
ourselves
that
this
money,
magic
money
tree,
would
come
out
of
the
pockets
of
the
poorest
people
in
this
city.
AJ
These
are
the
people
already
disproportionately
hit
by
changes
to
the
benefits
system
and
austerity
in
general,
and
not
even
in
the
report
we
see
and
the
officers
have
noticed
that
surprise,
surprise.
This
amendment
would
affect
black
and
minority
ethnic
people.
Those
are
the
disability
and
single
females.
AJ
So,
to
suggest
that
we
can
fleece
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
people
in
this
city
for
two
and
a
half
million
pounds
frankly
beggars
belief,
so
we've
always
championed
at
the
Green
Party
the
retention
of
the
of
the
CTRs
and
we're
not
about
a
stop
now,
but
be
supportive,
but
I
believe
to
be
a
really
appalling
proposal.
Thank
you.
AH
Thank
you,
I
think.
Most
things
have
already
been
said.
Actually
I
was
going
to
read
out
what
I've
written,
but
I
just
feel
that
it's
all
being
said
before.
There's
two
things
really
that
I
wanted
to
bring
up
when
I
think
that
this
amendment
lacks
ambition,
because
we're
talking
about
partial
and
I
just
think
it's
it's
just
that
it's
dabbling
this.
This
amendment
and
I
don't
quite
understand
why
you've
gone
down
the
roads
of
partially
doing
bits
and
pieces
with
bits
and
pieces,
and
it
just
seems
a
little
bit
messy
to
me.
But
I
think.
AH
The
key
thing
which
has
been
brought
up
across
the
floor
is
the
fact
that
it's
going
to
be
hitting
you're
going
to
be
taking
money
away
from
the
most
vulnerable
and
in
society
and
I
just
think.
That's
so
grossly
unfair,
and
it's
just
so
grossly
unnecessary
that
our
group
cannot
be
supporting
this
amendment.
Thank
you.
H
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
my
lord.
Now,
okay,
let's
come
back
on
it
poet
laureate.
Is
it
a
priority?
The
Welsh
poet
laureate
does
it
for
free
I
mean
council
rock,
did
a
wonderful
little
ditty
and
it
was
free
as
well.
Congratulations
I
did
wonder
whether
Nantucket
was
coming
out
so
I
was
it
was
okay?
Was
it
go
there
Fabian
you
are
correct
on
PCs,
oh
and
when
the
funding
has
been
put
back
in,
but
only
by
cutting
what
would
have
spent
it
on
otherwise.
H
So
actually
this
allows
to
save
little
partnership
to
refund
itself
and
then
increase
it
over
time.
So
to
screw
there
and
I
do
remember.
Labour's
pledge
on
police
numbers
I.
Also
remember
the
comments
of
Diane
Abbott
on
how
she
was
gonna
fund
it
as
well
on
the
grit
on
the
Brussels
office
on
the
brass
office,
we're
actually
committed
to
October
and
then
we're
looking
to
remove
it.
Thereafter,
we
brought
in
three
and
a
half
million
Birmingham,
brought
in
vastly
more
and
didn't
have
that
office.
H
The
universities
will
cut
the
funding,
no,
they
won't
and
the
reason
that
we're
going
to
do
it
is
actually
one
of
the
few
schemes
were
going
to
remain
part
of
after
Breck's
will
be
the
horizon.
2020
successor,
because
places
like
Israel
are
in
doubt,
Switzerland
ran
it
Norway.
You
know
there
are
countries
are
not
in
the
you
that
part
of
that
and
they
access
that
funding.
The
universities
are
going
to
keep
funding
it.
Did
they
tell
you
they're,
not
they're,
not
telling
you
the
truth,
so
I'm?
H
Sorry,
that's
not
a
priority
for
us
either
on
the
counts
tax
reduction
scheme.
Yes,
it's
a
horrific,
unpleasant
choice,
but
the
problem
for
it
is.
We
don't
want
to
make
that,
but
your
colleagues
in
other
core
cities
didn't
want
to
do
it
either.
We
are
coming
to
a
point
that
actually
a
lot
of
the
motions
they
involve
capital
spend,
but
our
pressures
are
in
revenue.
There
are
very
few
options
left
to
us
to
try
and
put
revenue
back
in.
This
is
one
of
them.
H
We
think
you're
going
to
have
to
do,
and
it's
not
what
we
want
to
do
it.
It's
not
that
you're
gonna
want
to
do
it,
but
if
you
think
at
some
point
you're
not
gonna
have
a
choice,
so
you
can
throw
grenades
at
us
all.
You
want,
but
we
think
at
some
point
you're
going
to
have
to
do
it
and
say:
if
we're
going
to
do
it
I'd,
rather
we
did
it
on
our
own
terms.
So
I'm,
sorry
I
do
think
this
is
worthwhile.
H
F
A
A
We're
now
moving
on
to
the
section
6
of
the
procedure,
the
position
on
the
budget
it's
on.
Can
we
please
have
so
now
we're
going
to
have
the
position
on
budget
amendments
green
amendments,
one
two
and
four
were
carried
all
of
the
others
were
lost.
I
would
now
ask
full
council
to
formally
note
to
the
chief
fire
Officers
statement
as
set
out
in
full
on
page
16
of
the
main
budget
report,
which
event,
which
essentially
confirms
the
robustness
of
the
budget
estimates.
A
A
X
A
AS
Thank
you
very
much.
Lord
Mayor
as
I
stand
to
speak
in
this
wider
debate
on
the
budget.
I
am
very
sensitive
to
the
distress
that
we
witnessed
earlier
in
the
public
gallery
and
the
strength
of
feeling
that
we've
heard
but
I
feel
it's
really
poor
important.
As
a
member
of
this
labor
administration,
that
I
share
a
wider
perspective
of
our
long-term
vision
and
priority
of
them.
What
we
are
protecting
as
part
of
this
budget.
AS
Even
in
these
difficult
times
of
austerity,
from
where
we
started
in
2016,
with
a
30
million
black
hole
in
the
finances
left
by
the
previous
administration,
we
have
had
to
get
the
city's
finances
on
a
stable
footing.
This
year's
budget
will
balance
the
76
million
funding
gap
over
four
years,
and
it's
not
just
by
making
savings,
but
by
investing
our
own
money
wisely
and
winning
external
funding.
We
are
also
developing
skills
in
commercialization,
so
that
council
assets
can
earn
money
for
the
city
and
every
pound
we
earn
helps
to
protect
frontline
services.
AS
AS
AS
We
know
it
is
a
very
porous
to
a
hardest
hit
by
austerity
and,
as
we've
discussed
already,
we
have
committed
to
keeping
the
poorest
out
of
cancer
tax
by
retaining
the
council
tax
reduction
scheme,
something
we
know
the
Tories
would
have
got
rid
of
and
by
protecting
our
citizens
from
too
sudden
a
rise
in
council
tracks.
We
have
invested
5.3
million
in
tackling
homelessness.
We
are
challenging
food
poverty
and
creating
school
breakfast
clubs
and
holiday
clubs
that
provide
a
decent
meal
for
children
in
the
for
holidays.
AS
Labour
has
saved
millions
by
refinancing
PFI
agreements
and
has
made
850,000
savings
by
restructuring
senior
management
roles
in
the
council,
and
this
has
helped
us
to
keep
resources
available
to
invest
in
frontline
services
and
early
interventions
where
other,
particularly
Tory
councils
around
the
country
have
cut
all
their
children's
centres.
An
early
intervention
in
family
support
to
save
money.
They
are
now
paying
the
price
of
failure
as
their
costs
spiral
with
more
families
breaking
down
and
children
taken
into
care.
We
will
not
fall
into
this
trap
of
force
economy.
AS
Likewise,
our
public
health
and
adult
social
care
strategies,
so
you're
prescribing
and
community
navigators
investment
in
better
care
in
the
home
will
enable
people
in
this
city
to
have
a
better
experience
of
an
active
old
age,
staying
independent
in
their
own
homes
for
longer,
which
is
where
most
want
to
be,
rather
than
in
costly.
A
residential
care
labour
has
prioritized
environmental
issues
and
air
quality.
AS
We
have
exceeded
our
carbons
the
carbon
emissions
target
and
have
just
won
2.2
million
to
retrofit
emissions
reductions,
technology
on
81
buses
that
run
on
some
of
the
most
polluted
roads
in
the
city.
This
is
an
addition
to
a
previous
500,000,
clean
bus
grant
technology
grant
and
a
joint
grant
of
four
point:
eight
million
with
South
Gloucestershire
to
introduce
a
hundred
and
ten
biomethane
buses
into
the
fleet
and
a
six
million
investment
to
upgrade
the
Bristol
City
Council
vehicle
fleet.
AS
AS
In
Lockleys,
my
own
ward,
we
celebrated
the
city's
first
clean
electric
battery
storage,
having
fought
off
several
applications
for
dirty
diesel
generators,
and
this
now
sets
a
precedent
for
clean
energy
across
the
city.
There
is
much
more
to
say,
but
unfortunately,
the
good
things
that
are
happening
here
often
don't
get
hurt,
but
if
I
could
just
sum
up
for
now,
as
I
think
I'm
nearly
out
of
time
here,
can
you
wind
up?
Please.
A
AS
We
understand
how
important
things
like
the
public
toilets
are
to
to
our
city
and
some
of
the
choices
we
made
have
been
very
hard
if
we
had
to
pay
to
bring
all
the
outdated
counts
or
toilet
buildings
up
to
standard.
This
would
have
prevented
us
making
other
investments,
but
it
has
created.
It
is
necessitated
creative
thinking
and
a
new
community
toilet
scheme
that
should
be
able
to
provide
better
value
for
money
and
more
toilets
in
areas
that
didn't
have
them
before.
AS
H
You
very
much
my
lord
now
I
will
try
and
truncate
the
ten
minute
speech
I
had
planned
earlier
into
I.
You
would
have
loved
it.
Iii
nearly
I,
nearly
to
poetry,
all
of
my
own
or
sang
a
song
like
I'm
sure
counselor
right
wanted
I,
don't
mean
Johnny
Cash
first
well,
thank
you.
Mama!
Can
I
I'm
half
the
group
thank
council
Cheney
and
your
officers
for
preparing
the
budget.
H
We
may
not
like
everything
in
it,
but
we
know
the
immense
amount
of
work
that
goes
in
it
and
that's
often
unsung
because
I
mean
they
would
have
pored
over
this
and
sweated
over
it,
probably
over
Christmas,
because
obviously
the
settlement
comes
late.
They
have
to
redo
all
the
figures
in
order
to
hit
the
cabinet
deadlines.
So
congratulations
to
them
job.
Well,
done!
H
No!
No!
No!
No!
No
I
don't
to
be
on
contentious
and
only
on
contentious
you're.
Absolutely
right.
The
this
council
a
faces,
a
severe
financial
problem
and
challenges.
Challenges
is
an
understatement
to
that,
but
it
all
sits
in
the
context
of
the
national
picture
as
well,
whereas
there
was
a
black
hole
this
council
had
to
plug.
There
is
a
black
hole
that
the
government
has
to
plug,
and
actually
I
would
argue
that
we
have
to
live.
H
I
would
argue
that
we
have
to
as
a
country
live
within
our
means,
because
I
think
it
is
morally
wrong
to
hand
a
debt
to
our
children
and
ask
them
to
pay
it
off
with
that
said,
I
think
the
local
government
funding
has
gone
too
far
because
actually
I
do
tell
them.
If
you
want
how
you're
going
to
send
your
copy
the
letter
we've
lobbied
them
actually
on
local
funding,
we've
lobbied
them
on
an
adult
social
care
on
transport.
H
On
recently
on
the
issues
around
students
and
the
problems
that
that's
caused,
we
do
do
this
because
we
know
that
actually
it
all
needs
to
be
looked
at.
Oh
well,
thank
you
for
the
critique,
and
sometimes
there
is
additional
money
for
a
low
social
care.
It's
still
not
nothing.
We
have
to
look
at
how
it
becomes
sustainable.
H
In
the
long
term,
there
was
more
money
for
transport,
more
money
for
housing
that
come
along
and
the
clean
buses
which
I
think
cancer
threat
all
was
talking
about
in
in
the
press,
but
often
very
what
those
monies
eyes,
its
capital
investment
and
it
doesn't
shift
our
revenue
I'm
not
going
to
go
over.
The
debate.
We've
had
in
Casa
de
corrector
scheme
that
one's
lost
for
this
year,
but
I
think
at
some
point,
you're
gonna
have
to
look
at
it.
H
There's
a
lot
that
I
like
in
the
budget,
bring
it
back
to
actually
what's
in
there.
I
I
think
the
back
office
savings
that
accounts
attorneys
involved
and
driving
through.
They
look
promising
then
Devils
in
the
detail,
because
obviously
some
of
those
figures
are
broad
headline
and
how
that
trickles
down
will
remain
to
be
seen
and
like
in
anything
that
happens
over
the
next
few
months.
I
think
the
adults,
social
care
side
of
thing
actually
is
heading.
The
reaction
and
I
would
thank
officers,
particularly
for
the
briefing
we
had
on
that.
H
That
was
very
thorough,
very
well
thought
through,
but
there
are
elements
that
we
don't
agree
with.
I,
don't
think
the
parks
proposals
are
going
to
work.
I,
simply
don't
think
it's
achievable
and
I'm
still
concerned
about
how
at
the
mutualization
that
we
all
voted
for
it's
going
to
translate
when
it
comes
to
the
libraries
and
the
list
goes
on.
I
think
you.
There
are
options
and
we
disagree
on
that.
H
Today,
don't
we,
but
actually
no
I
love
you
too
Jeff,
it's
okay,
but
actually
this
is
where
the
party
divide
comes
and
I
think.
Maybe
we
all
need
it
because
certain
what
happened
earlier,
maybe
just
take
a
step
back
and
actually
look
at
what
we
do
agree
with,
because
all
too
often
our
parties
me
included.
We
spend
a
lot
of
time
finding
those
wedge
issues.
H
We
found
a
lot
of
time
trying
to
divide
our
communities
because
that's
how
we
get
the
votes
and
all
the
rest
of
it
and
that's
how
politics
works,
but
there
are
stuff
that
we
do
agree
on
and
I
think
we
can
do
well.
I
mentioned
it
earlier.
Maybe
we
should
be
looking
at
the
swindon
environmental
icer
as
a
means
to
try
and
get
money
in
for
renewable
energy.
Maybe
we
can
work
out
and
I
know
the
mayor's
passionate
when
his
mass
transit
schemes
I
disagree
on
the
underground.
H
Let's
not
have
that
debate
today,
but
what
other
mass
transit
schemes?
What
other
options
are
there
that
we
can
agree
on?
And
how
can
we
start
lobbying
together
to
deliver
those?
Well,
let's
sit
down
and
find
early
air
quality
you
want.
Yes,
we
don't
support
the
idea
of
congestion
charging,
but
up
to
that
point,
where
do
the
four
parties
sit
that
we
can
find
that
agreement
on
and
we
can
Lobby
to
there
and
then
fight
about
the
the
20%?
H
After
that,
you
know
what
maybe
we
need
to
all
of
all
of
us
concerning
today,
just
reach
out
a
little
bit
more
olive
branch
and
actually
try
and
speak
to
each
other
more
discuss
issues
more
share
ideas
about
how
we're
going
to
go
with
communities,
how
we're
going
to
support
them
in
straighten
times
but
I'm
not
going
to
support
the
budget.
Thank
you,
though,
for
the
hard
work,
you've
done
and
I
hope
we
can
move
forward
on
the
year
ahead
on
issues
which
actually
do
engage
us
all,
and
we
can
all
agree
on
that.
AT
Well,
let's
start
for
the
good
stuff
number
one
I'm
pleased
that
this
year
at
least
a
number
of
the
good
ideas
for
the
Greens
have
brought
to
the
budget
process
have
been
agreed,
not
the
ones
around
cars.
Obviously
I
wouldn't
have
expected
that
so
good
start.
Unfortunately,
it
kind
of
goes
downhill
from
there.
When
you
look
at
the
budget,
which
I
have
looked
it
very
closely.
The
headline
request
from
our
mayor
is
for
us
to
not
through
a
budget
which
cuts
our
further
34
million
from
the
council
spending.
AT
Okay,
you
say
that
quickly
enough
or
you
look
at
it
at
a
line
in
spreadsheet.
It
doesn't
sound
so
bad,
but
when
you
actually
look
at
what
it
means,
it's
horrendous.
So
to
put
it
in
some
kind
of
context,
our
total
waste
services,
our
total
waste
services,
cost
26
million,
the
total
cost
of
all
our
ICT
legal
HR
and
workplace
team
expenditure
comes
to
23
million.
So
this
is
a
very
large
amount
of
money
by
any
standards.
AT
It's
our
view
in
the
greens
that
this
amount
of
money
you
cannot
cut
it
without
hurting
frontline
services
and
impacting
on
real
people,
even
though
the
language
of
the
report
often
suggests
that
you
can
again
and
again
when
I
was
reading
it.
This
sort
of
it's
ly
positive
language
used
to
describe
these
cuts.
For
example,
we're
told
in
the
papers
that
we
can
cut
over
6
million
pounds
from
the
adult
cable
budget
and
yet
still
have
quote
a
more
joined
up
service.
AT
Well,
maybe
we're
also
told
we
can
make
it
quote
easier
for
people
to
get
the
help
they
need
in
education
and
skills
while
still
cutting
90,000
pounds.
Well,
possibly
we're
told
that
we
can
quote
improve
outcomes
for
children
while
cutting
a
quarter
of
a
million
pound.
Really,
why
do
we
just
tell
it
like
it
is?
These
cuts
will
combined
with
earlier
cuts
cause
real
problems
with
frontline
services.
A
further
question
is
whether
the
planned
cuts
can
even
be
achieved
in
the
way
proposed
when
you
begin
to
look
carefully
at
the
cuts.
AT
There's
some
very
odd-looking
large
numbers
floating
around,
for
example
improving
our
business
efficiency.
Nine
point:
nine
million-
well
maybe
I
mean
I've-
heard
quite
a
lot
of
this
stuff
from
max
wide
three
years
ago.
I
didn't
really
believe
it
then.
Surely
all
the
business
efficiency
cuts
have
already
been
made
and
what
we
have
here
are
real
cuts
impacting
all
the
real
people.
My
skepticism
is
increased
even
more
when
I
see
examples
like
this
there's
a
proposed
reduction
in
spending
of
1
million
pound,
resulting
from
what's
described
as
an
organizational
redesign.
AT
At
the
same
time,
recently
I
saw
a
current
organizational
chart
for
the
council
in
the
leadership
team,
which
shows
half
a
dozen
interim
appointments
in
the
19
post
available.
They
must
be
costing
a
fortune
I
remember
when
we
had
an
interim
chief
executive
recently,
he
was
costing
a
thousand
pound
a
day,
so
I
think
some
of
these
proposed
cuts
are
unrealistic.
I
mean
in
conclusion,
I
know
that,
ultimately,
we
have
the
Tories
to
blame
for
these
cuts
and
I'm
really
pretty
sure
that
this
administration
is
trying
to
minimize
the
damage
caused
by
them.
AT
They're
taking
the
wrong
approach,
look
at
Northamptonshire,
they
did
everything
they
were
asked
by
the
Tories.
They
didn't
put
up
their
council
tax
for
years.
They
privatized
everything
that
moved
many
services
were
out
sourced
them
declared
loudly
in
2014.
That's
quotes.
The
old
model
of
local
government
no
longer
works.
Well,
it
certainly
didn't
work
for
them.
Stephen.
Can
you
wind
out
keys
Sony?
Despite
all
this
code
saying
they
were
still
allowed
to
go
bankrupt
last
month.
AT
There
is
a
different
way:
Bristol
is
a
great
place
and
together
with
Manchester
Liverpool
Leeds
on
the
other
core
cities,
we
could
provide
a
truly
alternative
narrative
to
austerity.
This
administration
could
provide
real
leadership.
Real
resistance
to
these
endless
cuts
from
the
Tories
and
their
shires
I
regret
to
say
that
at
this
moment,
our
mayor
and
the
labour
administration
are
just
not
doing
it.
Therefore,
I
cannot
in
all
conscience
vote
for
this
budget.
K
Thank
you,
Lord
Mayor
I'd
like
to
echo
some
of
the
comments
that
we
made
earlier
mr.
beard,
but
also
to
say
that
I
think
that
we
have
a
problem
with
the
mayor
system.
I
stress
I'm,
not
talking
about
the
individual
mayor
here,
because
some
of
the
problems
actually
were
inherited
from
the
previous
mayor.
We
actually
saw
fictitious
savings
that
have
been
made.
We
saw
a
major
problem,
but
I've
got
to
say
that
some
of
the
things
actually
are
occurring
now
as
well.
K
Money
sent
back
to
government
for
people
premiums
were
looked
after
children,
shocking
environmental
grants
sent
back
I.
Think
a
lot
of
that
was
down
to
the
previous
administration.
We've
got
extra
spin-doctors,
we've
had
huge
turnover
of
senior
staff,
and
the
temporary
staff
have
cost
us
a
fortune.
It
costs
a
lot
of
money
to
change
staff
over
and
we've
lost
some
very
good
staff,
along
with
some
of
the
ones
that
we
could
possibly
have
done
without,
and
that
is
not
an
efficient
way
to
run
an
administration.
K
The
public
have
also
suffered
since
we've
had
the
mayor
system
from
high
council
tax
increases
that
hit
modest
earners
the
worst
everyone
has
said:
it's
an
aggressive
tax
system.
It
does
need
to
change,
but
we
need
to
make
certain
that
we
are
doing
our
best
to
protect
those
people
on
modest
incomes,
and
that's
not
happened.
There's
only
five
years
ago
that
we
had
frozen
council
tax
and
Protective
Services.
That's.
K
B
K
Wasn't
true
when
the
previous
mayor
said
it,
and
it's
not
true
now
by
careful
value
engineering,
we
actually
demonstrated
earlier
on
with
our
amendment
that
you
could
in
actual
fact
do
more
without
cutting
services,
and
that
needs
to
be
careful.
Look
tough
couple
of
years
ago,
we
demonstrated
that
the
numbers
were
wrong
with
regard
to
the
council
tax
base.
That
was
eventually
amended.
Thank
you.
Last
year
we
identified
the
drag
on
capital
projects
delivery
and
how
the
saving
from
that
could
actually
be
used
to
save
a
few
services.
K
Well,
they
were
voted
that
down
last
year,
amusingly
this
year,
officers
have
brought
it
back
as
a
key
part
of
the
way
that
the
budget
is
actually
constructed.
This
year
we
have
found,
despite
limited
access,
the
information
to
further
mayoral
slush
funds.
The
first
is
the
silk
4
million
pounds
a
year.
That's
what
we've
been
collecting
up
to
now
a
mark.
Actually,
we
don't
need
an
increase
in
huge
house
building.
That's
on
present
figures.
K
If
we
get
a
huge
increase
in
our
building,
it'll
be
more
than
that
and
most
of
that
not
even
included
in
the
budget.
The
second
source
of
money
is
the
triple
contingency
which
we
are
identified.
I
mean
we've
got
capital
projects
which
have
internal
value,
engineering
and
contingencies
themselves,
also
reserves
20
million
pound
plus,
which
were
called
on
not
that
long
ago
to
plug
the
gap
left
by
the
previous
mayor.
You
could
describe
this
as
belt
and
braces,
but
not
happy
with
that.
K
We've
now
got
a
straightjacket
as
well
and,
quite
frankly,
I,
don't
think
in
when
services
are
being
plucked,
that
we
need
to
vote
for
an
unnecessary
straitjacket
and
that's
why
we
cannot
support
this
budget
despite
the
fact
that
we
actually
quite
like
two
or
three,
the
minor
amendments
of
the
Green
Party
got
got
through
the
lack
of
experience.
Incompetence
in
this
administration
shines
through,
and
basically
we
need
to
make
certain
that,
if
that
we
are
very
clear
in
our
criticism,
we
also
are
told
that's
capital,
contingencies.
K
Yeah,
if
that
happens,
it'll
be
cheaper.
It
won't
necessarily
be
better,
but
it
will
be
cheaper,
so
there's
even
less
excuse
for
squirreling
away
large
amounts
of
money
for
extra
spending
on
contingency,
where
an
actual
fact
that
the
spending
is
likely
to
be
less
so
we
obviously
cannot
support
this
budget.
L
L
Let
me
just
I'll
come
on
to
some
points
here,
but
first
of
all
the
argument
about
that
Brussels
officers
in
Birmingham
Birmingham
does
have
a
Brussels
office.
In
fact,
I
was
standing
here
yesterday
and
I
tweeted
a
picture
from
it.
It's
a
bigger
office,
then
I
was
more
expensive.
It's
it's
tied
in
with
the
with
the
the
universities
and
I.
Just
as
we
sat
around
the
table,
I
know
that
the
Green
Party
like
to
talk
about
call
City.
So
we
we
were
at
the
forefront
of
that
trip.
Actually
taking
8
of
the
10
core
cities.
L
I
won't
do
a
knowledge
test
as
well,
because
I
know
you
like
to
talk
about
how
to
use
them,
but
to
name
the
chief
exec
in
the
chair
which
someone
in
your
party
didn't
actually
know.
After
writing,
a
big
article
about
how
does
should
be
used
with,
but,
having
sat
around
a
table,
we
were
warned
very
categorically
that,
as
they
formal
channels
into
the
EU
are
locked
off
from
us.
L
As
the
government
puts
its
red
lines
down,
we
will
have
to
work
doubly
hard
at
opening
up
and
using
our
informal
channels
and
the
conversation
we
began
to
have.
But
before
we
met
with
Michel
Barnier
and-
and
you
know,
any
other
delegates
from
from
the
EU
was
that
we
know
we-
we
are
going
to
need
to
up
our
game
and
not
just
as
an
individual
city
but
as
a
collection
of
UK
cities
and
I'm
am
pleased
to
say
actually,
therefore
hosted
at
the
end
of
the
day.
L
We
think
as
well
I
mean
that
the
agony
surrounding
council
touch
I,
hear
your
point
about
their
council.
Touch
reduction
scheme
for
us
the
chaos
that
was
being
brought
in
by
a
welfare
reform
just
meant
it
wasn't
the
right
time.
We
could
see
people
plunged
into
chaos
and
we
had
to
to
try
and
protect
the
the
poorest
and
most
vulnerable
people
in
our
city.
L
One
is
that
what
we
are
offering
here
is
a
relationship
with
central
government
as
to
how
we
are
going
to
continue
to
brand
economic
opportunities
and
investment
opportunities
in
the
UK,
which
is
one
of
the
reasons
they're
really
supporting
us,
but
also
as
we
go
to
government,
they
want
to
see
us
making
the
effort
what
they,
the
messages
that
we're
getting
is,
and
unfortunately
they
do
hold.
A
lot
of
the
money
is
before
they
bring
down
the
public
sector
investment
that
we
need
to
get
things
done.
They
want
to
see
that
we're
doing
our
job.
L
One
of
the
first
questions
that
was
brought
into
this
building
is
why's.
Bristol
never
had
a
coherent
present
submit
him
because
they
want
to
see
evidence
that
we
are
going
out
there
on
the
international
stage
trying
to
get
in
the
investment
we
need
and
not
going
to
do.
If
we
don't
do
our
bit
I've
terms
of
your
comments
from
from
the
Greens
it's
it's
interesting,
you
made
four
comments
on
the
the
budget.
Three
of
them
were
passed
and
you're
voting
against
it
in
your
speech,
I
absolutely
understand
that
you
don't
like
austerity.
L
We
don't
support
austerity.
We
believe
austerity
cuts
the
legs
out
from
the
opportunities
we
have
to
engaging
early
intervention,
and
that's
one
of
the
reasons
we
oppose
it.
So
in
what
you
say,
yeah
we
agree,
I,
don't
know
how
that
translates
into
the
need.
We
have
at
this
moment
in
time
facing
a
reduced
financial
envelope
from
central
government,
while
we're
trying
to
make
ends
meet
while
remaining
financially
competent
as
a
local
authority.
How
voting
against
us
passing
a
budget
where
we've
sucked
as
many
the
savings
in-house
as
possible
makes
sense?
L
To
be
perfectly
frank,
the
the
surest
way
there
is
the
surest
pathway
to
handing
over
the
most
vulnerable
people
in
this
city
to
a
government
that
has
pursued
a
policy
of
austerity,
irrespective
of
the
price
being
paid
by
the
poorest
people,
and
the
most
vulnerable
people
in
this
country
is
to
not
balance
our
budget
and
to
be
taken
over
by
bureaucrats
sent
down
from
Westminster
it's
so
to
fail
to
deliver
that
competence.
Is,
it
is
a
vote
for
the
Ono
unfettered
them
austerity
and
Gary
I
mean
we
get.
L
We
know
we
have
this
back
and
forth
every
time
you
know
the
the
the
we
we
did
take
over
an
organization
that
was
in
a
bad
state.
I
mean
you've
when
we
talk
about
collective
failure
of
leadership
that
was
cited
in
bond
rate,
that,
to
be
honest,
that
is
not
just
three
or
four
people
at
the
center
of
organization.
It's
great
to
bring
your
laser-like
forensic
analysis
to
play
now.
L
What
we
need
are
people
who
actually
get
stuff
done,
and
what
I'm
going
to
say
about
this?
This
is
that
I'll
accept
I'll,
be
accepted
in
the
budget
and
I'll
be
accepting
the
amendments.
Obviously
I'm.
Accepting
the
Greenman
amendments,
one
and
two,
as
for
today
and
subject
to
the
rewording
by
councillor
Nicola
Beach
I'll,
accept
a
green
amendment
for
also
I
mean
it's
just
we're
saying
that
if
one
of
the
mayor's
before
I
was
elected
said
to
me,
a
mare
from
London
is
when
they
got
into
office.
L
They
had
all
these
levers
lined
up
in
front
of
them,
and
the
shocking
moment
was
when
they
pulled
on
them.
They
found
out
they
weren't
connected
to
anything.
If
we
had
this
beautiful
land,
where
we
came
in,
we
wrote
our
Christmas
list
about
all
the
things
we
wanted
to
do.
We
had
adequate
results
and
we
had
had
have
got
power.
We
do
everything
what
to
do
around
children's
mental
health
around
housing
around
our
transport
solutions.
We
would
do
all
that,
but
we
face
a
wicked
situation
right
now,
shrinking
finances,
growing
population
growing
demand.
L
What
we
are
doing
is
looking
at
the
way
we
run
this
organization
we're
working
with
the
whole
city.
The
reason
we
talk
about
the
plan,
which
is
poo-pooed
earlier
on
the
reason
we
are
talking
about
a
city
plan
is
so
that
we
can
begin
to
get
alignment
between
our
plans.
The
council's
the
the
police's
plans
the
health
service.
L
What
goes
in
on
a
voluntary
community
sector,
so
we
can
get
the
whole
city
pointing
at
the
same
thing
at
the
same
time
and
in
fact
Gary
when
I
was
essentially
working
for
you,
as
director
of
the
LSP
and
I
actually
tried
to
get
that
through
were
with
the
LSP.
It
was
something
that
the
LSP
exec
and
a
Lib
Dem
Lieberson
approach
that
a
Lib
Dem
leadership
at
a
time
thoroughly
endorsed
because
they
saw
it
was
the
right
way
to
start
running
the
city.
L
The
pity
was
that
when
I
went
off
to
the
US
you
let
the
air
out
in
a
bag
and
drop
the
you
know
and
drop
the
approach.
But
when
we
were
here,
we
were
driving
that
through.
So
you
know,
we,
as
a
party
we've
got
the
right.
We've
got
the
right
ambitions:
we're
offering
an
open
hand
to
anyone
that
wants
to
work
with
us
on
delivering
those,
but
it's
about
deliveries
about
moving
beyond
cheap
headlines
and
coming
up
with
real
solutions
and
not
grandstanding.
Once
a
year
at
the
budget.