I ALWAYS find it amazing how certain councillors get a buzz of excitement when they dip their hands into the public purse to fund the projects that no residents seem to want. Like £400,000 on alterations to a bus route, £17.5 million for a Park & Ride and roundabout alterations, £4.5 million for a school at Oaklands, £175,000 on the bar walls, to name but a few.

I wonder if they have the same buzz when it came to increasing the council tax by three times the inflation rate?

All this comes from a council who before they were elected, stated they could run the budget without any increases in council tax at all.

I wait with great excitement for any comments.

E A Carter,

Marston Crescent,

Acomb, York.

Updated: 10:49 Monday, March 20, 2006