Council offers part of a lifeline for crossing patrols
Wednesday, 5th January 2011.
Haverhill Town Councillors are offering to part-fund the town's school crossing patrols, threatened with the axe by Suffolk County Council.
Members agreed to offer to pay 20 per cent of the £2,300-a-year cost of each of the two crossing patrols in the town, in Burton End and Wratting Road, for two years.
They agreed to a proposal by Cllr Maureen Byrne that the offer be made to Suffolk County Council, although county councillor Tim Marks told them they were wasting their time.
Town clerk Gordon Mussett also told them they could make the offer but the county council were proposing to close the service down altogether.
Cllr Alison Snape proposed they should find the money to pay the full cost of both crossing patrols, but no one else agreed to that.
Cllr Snape said it was vital the twon should keep the patrols and it was not much money.
But Cllr Margaret Marks said she thought this was just the tip of the iceberg of the cuts which were going to hit the town.
"We don't yet know what we are going to lose in the town," she said, "so we don't know what the priorities will be."
Cllr Clive Turner was concerned that if they fumnded one or two patrols, people would expect them to fund others for other schools.
Members agreed to offer to pay 20 per cent of the £2,300-a-year cost of each of the two crossing patrols in the town, in Burton End and Wratting Road, for two years.
They agreed to a proposal by Cllr Maureen Byrne that the offer be made to Suffolk County Council, although county councillor Tim Marks told them they were wasting their time.
Town clerk Gordon Mussett also told them they could make the offer but the county council were proposing to close the service down altogether.
Cllr Alison Snape proposed they should find the money to pay the full cost of both crossing patrols, but no one else agreed to that.
Cllr Snape said it was vital the twon should keep the patrols and it was not much money.
But Cllr Margaret Marks said she thought this was just the tip of the iceberg of the cuts which were going to hit the town.
"We don't yet know what we are going to lose in the town," she said, "so we don't know what the priorities will be."
Cllr Clive Turner was concerned that if they fumnded one or two patrols, people would expect them to fund others for other schools.
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