About Turn

Last night I attended the full meeting of Bury Metropolitan Borough Council at Bury Town Hall. At the start there were just four members of the public present (plus, unusually, a baby who occasionally enlivened proceedings by briefly, making the type of noise babies do).
The main source of interest was the consideration of a proposal that Bury Council contributes £120,000 towards the costs of emplying a Town Centre Manager who would promote the Town Centre and in particular the new development on The Rock. Whilst the Conservative Group felt that the job may well need doing, in view of the present financial situation they proposed that the decision which had already been made by Labour be reveresed by Full Council and sent back for reconsideration by the Labour Executive who run the Council. At the Scrutiny Committee meeting on Monday the single Liberal Democrat had voted with the Conservatives to support the plan to have this proposal considered at Full Council. To the surprise of many last night the six Liberal Democrats did an about turn and all voted with Labour so this proposal will now go ahead.