Safety comes first for the States in £800,000 revamp
Tuesday 27th April 2010, 2:56PM BST.
Health and safety improvements will be made to the Central Market
MORE than £800,000 of public money is being spent on improving the safety of States buildings.
The cash will come from the £44 million fiscal stimulus fund which was set up to kick-start the economy and keep Islanders in work during the recession.
Health and safety improvements will be made to the Central Market and the Fish Market and other public buildings including youth clubs, the Frances Le Sueur Centre, Overdale Hospital and the Maison St Louis Observatory.
Property Holdings – the States department which is managing the improvement works – has been allocated £101,227 for the improvements at the markets, with £702,213 set aside for other projects.
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More states money wasted on useless meaningless projects.Do we have a major safety issue which justifies this sort of cost!!!
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Surley if State’s buildings are so unsafe they nneed that much money spent on them. All out NOW!!
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This is the minister trying to pull the wool over our eyes again, the money being spent would have been spent anyway, it just looks like he trying to get brownie points. Most of the money being spent ,apart from the Victoria avenue re surfacing debacle and the money allocated to get our young school leavers into work which should be doubled are just savings from other projects not being allocated funds . If any of the money spent keeps local firms in work well fine, but any cash spent must not go to off island companies.
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It certainly looks like the recent comments that the Stimulus Fund has been used to “shore up” departmental budgets, might have some teeth?
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States departments keeping an eye on their spending, er – no
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The only thing the Fiscal Stimulus Fund is stimulating is the State’s ability to spend what they previously didn’t have.
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