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Enterprise will be eating humble on Thursday

Enterprise will be coming to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Thursday 15th at 7.45pm to eat another portion of humble pie.  The officers report makes pretty harrowing reading:http://www.ealing.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/1477/item_7-environmental_services_contractThe meeting is open to the public and typically the chairman will let members of the public speak for three minutes each, especially if they notify the chairman in advance.  More details here:http://www.ealing.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/1477/item_7-environmental_services_contract

Phil Taylor ● 4890d3 Comments

Figures released on Thursday night (question 32) show that 20% of Ealing’s streets were unacceptably dirty in November.  Eight months into the new Enterprise contract Ealing council has still not managed to give residents the service that they pay for.  This new contract is actually meant to be better than the old one.  The previous contract with May Gurney demanded that at least 90% of Ealing’s streets were graded A in the nationally agreed measurement scheme for these things.  As you can see last year May Gurney typically exceeded this.  The new contract says at least 95% of Ealing’s streets should be cleaned to grade A standard.  Again the figures show the nearest that Enterprise has got to this was August and September when 12.9% of streets were graded A.  In October and November these numbers were 16.2% and 19.5% respectively.  Of course it is harder to keep the streets clean in the autumn but Enterprise has been 2.5 times worse than May Gurney was the year before.  May Gurney consistently met its 90% target last year.  Enterprise hasn’t got anywhere near its contracted target.  Back in November Enterprise came to the Overview and Scrutiny meeting for a grilling.  You wouldn’t know it from the minutes but three different Tory councillors asked essentially the same question.  When will Enterprise meet its 95% grade A target?  Three times the question was ignored by council leader Cllr Julian Bell and the man in charge of this nonsense Cllr Bassam Mahfouz.  Neither the Labour administration nor Enterprise has made any undertaking as to when Ealing residents will get the service they pay for. 

Phil Taylor ● 4849d

The front page story on this slightly garbled the name of the meeting.  Enterprise will be coming to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Thursday 15th at 7.45pm.  The meeting is open to the public and typically the chairman will let members of the public speak for three minutes each, especially if they notify the chairman in advance.  More details here:http://www.ealing.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/1477/item_7-environmental_services_contract

Phil Taylor ● 4888d

Bassam Mahfouz and Roger Jones should do the honourable thing and resign - they continue to preside over an absolute shambles.

Tony Gould ● 4890d