A council contract of 1 million sterling pounds is deleted only a few weeks after its approved due to concerns concerning the “honesty” of the agreement.
In March, the Waverley Borough Council (WBC) signed a project to provide maintenance contracts at home, but it was torn during a recent council meeting.
Local conservative chief Jane Austin, who raised the request asked for her to be canceled, said: “The officers are now agree that this decision was not sure and could have been opened to challenge.”
WBC had previously argued that the contract would guarantee that the Council “able to provide high quality maintenance”.
With devolution and local government imminent reorganizationOpponents questioned by spending money for a service that had an uncertain future, the Local Democracy Report Service (LDR) said.
Extracts from the initial request indicated that the manager may have voted without having received all the facts, said the LDRS.
He added that there was a lack of confidence that “equity, impartiality and transparency can be demonstrated satisfactorily”.
He also said that there were evidence that had “important concerns that the advisers had not received all the facts / were potentially induced.”
Good faith
The Austin advisor said: “What was in question here was the honesty, the honesty of the advisers and really officers.
“Certainly what was in the reports, if our decision -making process was robust and if the advisers had received enough appropriate information on which they could count.”
The motion led by the opposition was supported by the chief of the Council Paul follows, although the liberal democratic adviser challenged questions on honesty on the part of the advisers who, according to him, relayed the information which was given to them in good faith.
He added that he had his suspicions on the deep causes of the problem but that he would not be appropriate to enter them.
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