Our top priorities are to create jobs for Dundee and to continue to modernise the city. Together, these will cement our position as a strong regional centre.Thus clearly all motherhood and haggis pie, but there's a caveat. Mr Guild continues:
We will also be looking to improve social inclusion for people in Dundee and improve the quality of life. We want to create healthier and safer communities, protect our children and help them achieve their potential.
In the current economic climate we will have to work smarter and do more with less. There will be difficult decisions and we will be looking to prioritise and protect frontline services that people rely on.There's more, but does all this really tell us anything? Could anyone really disagree with the objectives? Aren't they the same ones as the last administration, and the one before that, etc?
As for the financial situation, if the council wasn't doing in the past what Mr Guild outlines will be happening in the future then perhaps it's no surprise that the public finances are in such a parlous state.
But at least the council is saving money by recycling the strategic objectives from yesteryear. Or perhaps they went through the same rigmarole as in the past to come up with the same objectives.
Probably the latter. And perhaps there's more meat on the bones of this than the Courier's report seems to suggest, but with other talk of the council working "through the Dundee Partnership to meet the single outcome objective with the Scottish Government, which is designed to ensure local and national priorities dovetail," I'm not holding my breath.
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We are going to empower communities. With our stakeholders we are going to bring our vision to neighbourhoods, using joined up working and planning partnerships to deliver clearly defined objectives to our customers and service users. We are going to be service led - our key aim is to have you the customer determine our priorities. And we will be a one stop shop - one and done that is our commitment to you - right first time. We will be a listening organisation who put the demands of our customers first - and we will value your contributions.
Through difficult timeswe will work together to deliver the outcomes that ar important to all of us. Better communities. Safer communities. Communities which reflect the values of the people who live in them.
Your community.
Did you see what I did there? Well, apart from a spellcheck I reckon I could write guff for just about anyone - as I didn't even have a subject matter.
It's all bollox.
Nice one, Observer, you had me fooled there, I thought you'd pasted that from one of the recent party manifestos.
But it's easy to see why you work in the public sector, or was it director of marketing at Tesco? ;0)
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