£6 million Council black hole: Cllr Hay ducks & dives

[Tartan Seer]

Now that the £6 million hole in Argyll & Bute's budget is about to reach its denounment, with extremely serious consequences for the public services we all use and depend upon, those responsible for the financial mess are busy passing the buck and looking for cover.
No surprise then that up pops Councillor (& Lib Dem candidate for Holyrood) Hay in today's Courier. The charge is that Alison Hay, along with Council leader Walsh & Chief Exec Sally Loudon, fell asleep at the wheel whilst attending the vital COSLA meeting in November, convened to address the budget settlements for all of Scotland's councils, failing to notice or anticipate the disastrous consequences for Argyll and Bute's budget.
Alison Hay would have us believe that although she attended the COSLA meeting the failure to pick up on the budgetary implications was nothing to do with her as she did not have voting rights.
What a disgraceful kop out.
Surely, given that Hay is a senior and experienced Councillor, and that the long suffering Argyll council tax payer is paying her very generous salary, she had a primary duty to the interests of Argyll & Bute & at the very least ought to have had a word with Walsh & Loudon?
She did not, she has failed Argyll & Bute & at the very least ought to resign.
Argyll News has an excellent piece right here:
http://forargyll.com/2011/02/fromcounci ... solicitor/