[Closed] Glasgow City Council - Cutting Local Services

Thanks for reading this post.

Do you have an alternative proposal for reducing costs which would leave these facilities open?

higher alcohol tax?

less senior council staff and reduced senior council staff pensions ...

They do have alternatives (a) reduced opening hours is the main (token one), but the stinger, I think is a "necessary" maintenance bill (c. 80K) which they were keeping quiet about whilst trying to persuade users to (b) take ownership of the facility.

On a day-to-day basis it'll save the Council about £50k, but the manager at a meeting organised by one of the local councillors had absolutely no idea of how much cash it would save. Maybe he should have resigned and saved his department almost as much as it costs to run the facility.

Council will decide on 28 January on the fate of the facilities.

Sell them to the private sector, and then you can rent a room,what do want next,council owned pubs,dont forget schools and unis have lots of free space, rarely used at night and weekends.

I'm afraid all the councils in Scotland are going to be slashing services over the next few years. Something called a budget deficit, apparently, which needs fixing. Different councils will slash differently but all council departments are faced with less money to spend for the next ten years or so. At the end of the day they're more likely to slash spending on leisure and recreation etc than homecare, for example.

project: the school I went to was a 'community education centre' school maybe these are more common in rural areas. I left in 1997 and back then the school was open each evening for community groups, activities etc and over the weekend.

As long as they dont bloody start selling parks like pollock off to the developers!

Local councils should get rid of all non essential resources,examples being leisure centres,all community centres,all libraries,these facilities should and can be run by the private sector and amalgamated into private buildings,reduceing the drain on public resourses for the pensions and maintance.

Care homes,public parks,should be the only things kept in public ownership.

How is a community centre going to be run by the private sector exactly?

Why must we reduce everything to how much money it can make?

Grum everything has a cost thats what CAPITALISM IS ALL ABOUT,community centres should be run by private companies or charities,and paid for by the users not the whole of the population of the area.

Hey. That's where I cast my votes on election days!

What the devil is going on?

Speedy, I'll follow up your request tonight, when I'm online at home, which is right round the corner from that Overnewton centre, just the other side of that Orange Lodge in the background. Now [i]THAT[/i] is the kind of thing the council should be closing down - noisy, drum-banging, road-blocking, regularly-marching, flute-playing ne'er-do-wells.

Local councils should get rid of all non essential resources,examples being leisure centres,all community centres,all libraries,these facilities should and can be run by the private sector and amalgamated into private buildings,reduceing the drain on public resourses for the pensions and maintance.

Not sure I agree here - slightly blinkered view I think. If councils don't provide some of these low and zero profit features no-one else will. Many of the council run facilities near me at my old place hugely reduced the "ned" population roaming the streets (proven when it shut for 6 months) and provided parents with somewhere to take their toddlers to exercise cheaply etc. It also provided the local school with swimming lessons and some additional sports facilities, which has spawned 1 olympic swimmer and at least 1 national rugby player from that school, I find it hard to believe that if they had not had early, free access to these facilities that they would still have had the same chance to experience it.

I suppose the alternative (since they're non, zero or negative profit making) is not having them at all. Providing fewer opportunities for the community, providing fewer distractions for the teenagers who roam the streets normally and providing basic health-improving opportunities for youngsters whos parents couldn't afford a gym membership.

As one of the people who rarely uses "local facilities" I'd gladly pay my meagre share with everyone else to keep them afloat.

Just a quick note to thank you for reading and contributing to this thread and also for your support of low cost, council provide sports facilities. Thank you also to those in the STW Massive in Glasgow who have contacted their Councillors - I was at a community council meeting (as an observer) and apparently letters opposing the closure are coming through, so lets hope the Council reconsiders their proposals. For more updates please visit [url= http://www.saveovernewton.org ]www.saveovernewton.org[/url].

Thanks!

Speedy!

How is a community centre going to be run by the private sector exactly?

Why must we reduce everything to how much money it can make?

Because anything that doesn't make money these days is no good.

Grum everything has a cost thats what CAPITALISM IS ALL ABOUT,community centres should be run by private companies or charities,and paid for by the users not the whole of the population of the area.

What you appear to aiming at is whoever uses said community centres should pay for them individually? THAT'S WHAT CAPITALISM IS ALL ABOUT.

Does anyone still honestly think that privatization does us any good these days?

I suppose the alternative (since they're non, zero or negative profit making) is not having them at all. Providing fewer opportunities for the community, providing fewer distractions for the teenagers who roam the streets normally and providing basic health-improving opportunities for youngsters whos parents couldn't afford a gym membership

Sounds like the 1980's all over again.

Anything in Glasgow that gives people some sort of direction shouldnt ever be cut.they have keep telling us about how much of a difference these centres make,then close them.Makes no sense 😕
No sense at all