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The Great BID Voting Scandal
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#BuryStEdmunds #WeLoveBuryStEdmunds My questions this evening refer to the current ballot for the Haverhill BID
As the Council is legislated as a BID partner, and has a vested interest in BID businesses the council also has a moral responsibility to allow a fair ballot to take place.
For this to be achieved with transparency for the businesses, isn't it the moral responsibility of the council to be seen to do the right thing and abstain from voting for its properties of car parks and toilets, to allow the businesses, decide for themselves, one way or the other.
As the West Suffolk Council is a different type of voter, and given it's block voting influence towards a YES or NO, they have the responsibility to the actual businesses who have had to struggle through lockdown, to make the decision about their future without relying on Council votes to win the ballot.
With greatly increased business costs of electricity and gas on the horizon, surely it would serve the West Suffolk Council well to take the moral high ground and abstain from using those hereditaments.
The Council would be seen as embracing democracy and the true spirit of the BID system by allowing those hard-working businesses to decide for themselves how their town should be promoted, without the need to have a decision made by local government intervention.
My supplementary question would have been...
As a director of the Love Newmarket BID and portfolio holder for Growth, Cllr Susan Glossop, do you not think it is morally wrong to be paying The Mosaic Partnership, exorbitant sums of money to push a BID through in Haverhill, where the proportion of tenanted properties far out-weigh that of Newmarket, where the Love Newmarket BID has had to cover over windows with pictures of busy shops to wallpaper over the lack of shops.
As the Council is legislated as a BID partner, and has a vested interest in BID businesses the council also has a moral responsibility to allow a fair ballot to take place.
For this to be achieved with transparency for the businesses, isn't it the moral responsibility of the council to be seen to do the right thing and abstain from voting for its properties of car parks and toilets, to allow the businesses, decide for themselves, one way or the other.
As the West Suffolk Council is a different type of voter, and given it's block voting influence towards a YES or NO, they have the responsibility to the actual businesses who have had to struggle through lockdown, to make the decision about their future without relying on Council votes to win the ballot.
With greatly increased business costs of electricity and gas on the horizon, surely it would serve the West Suffolk Council well to take the moral high ground and abstain from using those hereditaments.
The Council would be seen as embracing democracy and the true spirit of the BID system by allowing those hard-working businesses to decide for themselves how their town should be promoted, without the need to have a decision made by local government intervention.
My supplementary question would have been...
As a director of the Love Newmarket BID and portfolio holder for Growth, Cllr Susan Glossop, do you not think it is morally wrong to be paying The Mosaic Partnership, exorbitant sums of money to push a BID through in Haverhill, where the proportion of tenanted properties far out-weigh that of Newmarket, where the Love Newmarket BID has had to cover over windows with pictures of busy shops to wallpaper over the lack of shops.