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Obvious concern over funding – Donna Sagar (DS)to look at other possible funding sources, but she and the LibDem Executive councillors were still claiming my questions on the subject were “vexatious”, and their pals at the Information Commission were not inclined to back down.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 07:14

Point 10

“Advice required on how much of the above goes in the highlight report for May’s Project Board. Agenda to be prepared in advance – not a full highlight report”.

Sounds a bit iffy to me.



Cost in February 2006 £7.5 – £8m. Funds available £5.8m plus another possible £600k.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 07:07


Strangely, Stockport Council have and do allow me to ask FOIA questions on any subject except the corruption pit that is the toxic waste dump primary school.

LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 07:00

Do you smell a rotting LibDem rat?



Workers from the Information Commission at Wilmslow migrate to Stockport Council. Claire Naven, Stockport Council’s then FOIA officer did as did Alex Ganotis who was later Leader of the council and agreed that all my questions were “vexatious”.

LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 06:56

And the Information Commissioners past and present frankly are not much to write home about.



I gave up asking when the cost got to £10m and the project managers, Webb and Sager, told the Information Commissioner my questions were “vexatious”.

Andrew Webb, CYPD, Donna Sager, CYPD, LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 06:53



Should this proposed school be reconsidered, I asked, in view of the spiraling costs and the fact that no consideration has been given to contamination remediation costs?

LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 06:50

Stop bothering us with your vexatious questions, the LibDem Executive councillors replied. We have important work to do.



Within another six months the proposed cost had risen to £8.2m, and they admit to being £2.4m short.

LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 06:47



Why has the cost of the proposed school gone from £5.5m to £7.5m in just two months, I asked.

LibDem Councillors, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, May 15, 2021 06:44

Don’t be vexatious and stop wasting our time with your pointless questions, the LibDem Executive councillors replied, and they still do.



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