The cleaning of tourist beaches across the Isle of Wight looks set to be cut from daily to weekly under the council’s budget proposals, but the current arrangements at Ryde are set to remain.
Budget proposals for 2020/21 were published by the Isle of Wight Council yesterday revealing plans to cut beach cleaning on the Island.
Currently, manual litter picking takes place daily between 1st May and 30th September each year. However, under the proposals all beaches – with the exception of Ryde – will be cleaned weekly instead, except in school holidays when they will be cleaned daily still.
The council recognises that litter may collect on beaches outside of the scheduled weekly cleans in the school term periods, especially following a prolonged period of good weather. This will proactively be monitored and dealt with through ad hoc manual cleans in order to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Environmental Protection Act.
The cut will save the council £16,000 in 2020/21.
In addition to changes to beach cleaning, grounds maintenance services within parks and cemeteries will be reduced to save £75,000. This will include stopping summer bedding in some areas.
Do all these cuts mean that there will be enough money for the council to have their pay rises ??
Bosses at the Isle of Wight Council earned more than £500,000 between them in one year, it has been revealed.
Figures from the TaxPayers’ Alliance show that the Chief Executive of the council, John Metcalfe, received £127,513 throughout the 2017/18 financial year.
He also had a pension of £29,965.
The data, published on the group’s 12th Town Hall Rich List, also revealed that Director of Adult Social Services, Carol Tozer, took home £106,263, with a pension of £24,972.
£103,087 was paid to Chris Ashman, the Isle of Wight Council’s Director of Regeneration, throughout the year. His pension was £23,579.
The local authority’s Head of Resources at the time, Claire Shand, earned £83,894 (not including expenses of £1,077). She had a
pension of £19,715, according to the data.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance says the council’s Director of Public Health claimed a salary of £97,366 with a pension of £13,995.
Isle of Wight Councillors received £474,488 in allowances and expenses last year — an increase of more than £13,000 compared with the previous year.
According to the 2018/19 figures, which have just been published, councillors received £314,160 in basic allowances, £130,725 in special responsibility allowances — awarded to councillors who hold senior roles, such as cabinet members and committee chairs — and £28,880 in expenses.
so the council save £16k on changing beach cleaning to once a week and destroy their environmental credentials by letting filth pile up, just so they can increase their expenses budget without impacting overall costs – this is at odds with their statement about providing services.
Council tax rises, services put out to contractors, service cuts, county hall full of managers with nothing left to manage. Time for a clear out and a vote of no confidence.
team up with the probation service get it cleaned free of charge every day. there are plenty on probation that have to do work days. that equate no cost to council tax payer .basic thinking why do we pay people at county hall for its not rocket science.
street cleaning could be done under the same program .
there guys are there to be punished time to put them to work.
None of the comments ever seen to accept that these cuts are needed due to over 80 million being cut from the budget by central government. So, you voted for it, don’t then complain. Make your minds up, what is it you want?
saving 16k on beach cleaning by changing it to weekly from daily doesn’t make an impact on 80million. They could keep the beach cleaning, hence ensure their environmental credentials remain intact and not claim so many expenses or spend out so much on layabouts, dossers, frreeloaders and other spongers that are nothing more than a burden on society.
The cuts being made by central government are reducing the waste and cutting the burden on the taxpayer – suits me just fine.
The less being spent by do gooders and other hand wringers the better and the more I get to keep of the money I make for myself. After all, I am getting up every day and working – therefore I expect to have all my money for me to spend – not have it taken by others.
The cuts by central government mean that such cuts have to happen to try and make up 82 million in cuts from every service, death by a thousand cuts.
You are ideologically attached to the Tories, which won’t allow you to even criticize them for cutting 82 million from the IOW budget, which you now whinge about being depleted. Get a grip, and some perspective.
cage – I am quite happy about the cuts – less overall cost to the taxpaying worker in the end – lower paid workers personal allowances are going up, wages are moving up – win, win for the taxpaying worker.
I want to see government reduced and spending on welfare reduced, so that my overall tax burden is lower. I want to see those working for the council and that means employees not political party members, pay their own expenses like everyone else does and then spend the money saved on beach cleaning etc, instead of mileage allowances and hotel rooms for their lates jaunt.
Let me guess, their wages go up though but our environment is allowed to suffer. Fantastic! They have their priorities sorted ♀️
so we’re paying more for less
You voted in to power one Bob seeley. This guy in turn has voted to cut another 500k funding to the isle of wight. Then you are shocked when them cuts have to made to hospitals or environment.
Sack the lot of them. They don’t care about the people they serve.
Disgusting