States approve £665,000 bid to bail out Heritage
Wednesday 21st July 2010, 2:56PM BST.
Hamptonne is currently only opened on special occasions
TROUBLED Jersey Heritage is in line to receive an extra £665,000 of taxpayers’ money each year after the States yesterday overwhelmingly approved plans to increase its funding.
Members voted 41-9 yesterday in favour of increasing Heritage’s annual States grant from £2.1 million to £2.3 million and making an extra £465,000 a year available to upgrade its sites.
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What about the arts?? Arts Centre & Opera House are scrabbling to find cash – but by keeping in the black they’re losing out yet again to an organisation that has wasted money (never quite got to the bottom of the Castle DUKWs).
Now the Island Games are heading this way, sport will want more too – they’ll be looking for a fallguy.
Reward some of the FEW public funded organisations that are running properly!!
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Old school tie decisions
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It’s rewarding managerial incompetence….but also there is the dwindling tourist numbers….and no one is doing anything about that it seems…Jersey could be a great product handled properly…..hire a Paid on results marketing company and fund it by disbanding most of the Tourism dept.
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#3 ‘hire a Paid on results marketing company and fund it by disbanding most of the Tourism dept.’
As long as it’s not the one which runs the swimming pool, They’d want their results underwritten!
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more money wasted by the states give the money to the hospital or clarkson house the states are clueless they have no idea of money mangement
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give paint and brushes for up keep of woodwork, and freeze all other cash input, staff with volanteers, i am sure many with time on there hands would come foreword.
why not staff with the unemployed.
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#5 ‘..the states are clueless they have no idea of money mangement(sic)’
Exactement, mon vieux. It all gets eaten up!
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To be fair to the Jersey Heritage TRUST, they have picked up an extra £665,000 and a lot more interest and scrutiny in how they run their affairs.
To be fair to the tax payers and of Jersey. You will loose kids milk £25,000 the hydrotherapy pool at the hospital, best not get ill, and just for good measure you will have to pay £22 million more in taxes.
Now who said that the States put the public first.
The old boys club in all its tarnished, flaking glory. Not one manager from Heritage out the door, sounds about right for Jersey.
Davey.
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Tried to visit Elizabeth Castle today. Website says they close at 6pm. Told at 4.05pm that water bus had finished for the day. I reminded them of their closing time – woman on reception said she was sorry but had been told by the driver not to take any more bookings.
2 hours lost business.
No wonder they are losing money.
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-9 they are like connex they get money from the states so don’t need to pull the fingers out to get punters
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