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Allan(nb Albert)

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  1. Not sure he is looking for a holiday on something that is brown and comes out of Cowes backwards ...
  2. The "bargain" regarding inflation was written into the grant agreement rather than the MOU. It is legally enforceable by both parties. It should also be understood that government have actually exceeded its legal obligations in respect of grant payments. That said, the grant agreement has worked out well for government (i.e. the taxpayer) who will be saving about £60m on the estimated £800m estimated spend over 15 years.
  3. Correct. I say informal because the mou was not legally binding. It is interesting to note that, having served its purpose, government now wishes to "retire" the MOU.
  4. The fact is that government has stuck to this informal agreement. CRT has had the opportunity to hand back responsibility to government but has failed to to do so.
  5. Part of justification for BW becoming a charity was the efficiences it could acheive by change of legal status ... There is a basic difference between CRT and councils in that reduction and elimination of funding was agreed between the parties informally at the outset.
  6. Cost estimates for Toddbrook have risen from an initial £10m to £37.6m. However, that figure is a year old so may have gone up again. It should also be remembered that Toddbrook raised questions regarding safety of other reservoirs and, indeed, other structures. Following the incident, CRT bypassed Defra and made a £200m + bid direct to the Treasury for extra money over a five year period. In effect this would have almost doubled government grant. The 2020 bid (actually a bid and a revised bid) was quietly rejected. Has CaRT’s government bid for £220m extra funding failed? As far as I can recall, CRT is footing the bill for almost everything related to Toddbrook and its wider implications. BTW, the costs for Harthill (mentioned in the article) have risen from £5m to £10m.
  7. You should have owned up to the Max Bygraves LP ...
  8. That was me some years ago. I don't know if more up to date information is available. On a more general note, the problem seems to be that CRT is below target on volunteer man hours this year.
  9. I guess it costs a lot less than the TV advertising campaign of a few years ago. Mind you that was suddenly pulled when the Toddbrook incident gave them free press coverage.
  10. It is not true that CRT trustees can not be fired by Council. A provision (24.9) in the Articles of Association mirrors a provision in the Companies Act 2006 (168 and 169) which allows shareholders (i.e. members of council) to remove trustees from office by resolution at a General Meeting.
  11. The number of people bothering to look at this topic says it all ..
  12. I guess that those that are aware wonder why they should bother. Can Council hold the Board of Trustees to account when its chair is also chair of Trustees?
  13. I note that you did not take up the challenge of publishing your own calculations... ... and what you call three multi choice questions were, in fact, binary choice ...
  14. IanD may wish to apply "a standard statistical method" to the results given to the board and tell us what he finds. I get a "most preferred" of - Option A - 46.15% Option B - 25.65% Option C - 12.82% Option D - 15.38% Not really surprising, bearing in mind the lack of support for options B,C and D. I have already taken the matter up with the reports authors and also queried why the results given to CRT's board of Trustees are not to be found. Fairly obviously I will not get a reply until the new year. I may not receive a reply.
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