Important as they are, I never thought I’d be writing repeated posts about yellow school buses, but I think this issue is entirely symptomatic of the misleading way in which our Labour leaders have approached the TIF consultation and the information which has been put out to the public.
A week last Monday, GMPTE officers delivered a presentation to the Walkden & Little Hulton Community Committee about the TIF bid. I have a copy of the presentation and I’ve read it carefully. Here’s what it said about yellow school buses:
In case the image isn’t working, that’s “up to 29 yellow school buses by 2018″.
Now, and credit to David Ottewell for this, we can now see where that figure of 29 came from:
So, when local residents are told that “up to 29 yellow schools buses” will be included with the TIF package by 2018, we can now see that this is manifestly not true. Of those 29 yellow buses,
- 1 already exists
- 9 are being provided by regional funding (RFA)
- of the remaining 19, some will be provided from TIF funds and some will be provided from “local funds” (LTP - ie, the Council taxpayer), but we don’t know how many.
So local residents in Salford are being told that up to 29 yellow school buses would be provided through TIF when the actual number is likely to be no more than 10 or 12. This is a shamefully misleading use of figures and local residents should be appalled that their money is being spent on such dreadful propaganda.
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