Fix 6: Stop the council wasting your money…

Shocked Liberal Democrats have revealed how long a holiday the ruling Tory
group on Herts County Council are giving themselves each side of the
forthcoming election in June. Many committees and panels last met early in
March and are not set to meet again for up to 6 months.

‘It beggars belief that they think the electorate does not need to feed into
decisions, through their councillors, for so long. What will the cabinet have
agreed to whilst the other 68 councillors are forced to wait for the
resumption of democracy?’ said County Councillor Malcolm Cowan.

‘Some of these committees are monitoring on services that have been shown to
be failing recently. We need to be keeping up scrutiny over what is being
done on our behalf.

‘Taken together, around £200m will be spent whilst councillors are taking an
enforced break.’