What did the public ask at the last public meeting of the Wallasey Constituency Committee?
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Wallasey Constituency Committee (Wirral Council) 12th March 2019 Part 1 of 2
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Wallasey Constituency Committee (Wirral Council) 12th March 2019 Part 2 of 2
Yesterday saw the last Wallasey Constituency Committee public meeting in Committee Room 1 at Wallasey Town Hall as next month it will be no more.
Indeed, its Chair Labour Cllr Bernie Mooney is also leaving as a councillor in a few weeks.
There were two members of the public who asked questions. Firstly a member of the public asked why council tax was going up, why Wirral Council had bought the Vue Cinema in Birkenhead (see picture above) and what Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram would be spending the extra money that the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority would receive from Wirral residents this year through the LCRCA precept on the council tax.
The Chair Cllr Bernie Mooney said that it wasn’t the right meeting for a proper answer, but if he left an email address then Wirral Council employees could send him a proper answer.
The same member of the public then brought up the issue of flytipping outside a building in Wallasey and the response (or lack of it) from absent Cllr Pat Hackett and the Merseyside Police. In addition he asked why the Corporate Director for Children’s Services Paul Boyce (a Wirral Council employee) was paid an annual salary of £146,625?
The Chair (who is also the Cabinet Member for Children & Families) explained that his salary was the “going rate”. Cllr Anita Leech (Cabinet Member for the Environment) responded to the point about flytipping.
Finally the same member of the public made a point about community engagement. The Chair referred him to representatives from community groups sitting behind him.
Another member of the public Father Leon Ostaszewski raised issues about the future of the library service, road surfaces of various roads in Wallasey that he had noticed as a cyclist and he also asked if people knew what was happening to St John’s Church.
The Chair said they would pick up his questions and move onto the next agenda item.
The rest of the public meeting was mainly about the Wallasey Constituency Committee’s underspent budget and councillors discussing and debating how the money should be spent.
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