TWO recent items in the Evening Press have proved interesting to me.
Firstly, the report that the council has employed a firm to present plans for Coppergate Riverside (plus Piccadilly), and secondly that our council leader is putting forward reasons for an exorbitant increase in the council tax (14 per cent, with the inflation rate running at approximately 2.5 per cent), well before the event.
It's a pretty poor manager who has to provide excuses before a potential match loss.
This raises two questions. Whatever happened to the "clean sheet of paper" that was supposed to precede any further debate on the Coppergate site? And is our manager in such fear of a backlash that he needs to try and prepare the masses before hitting them with such a tax hike?
R. Hutchinson,
Manor Park Close,
York.
Updated: 09:36 Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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