New Year 2011
May I start this, another new year by wishing all readers a very happy and healthy 2011 with lots more happy and healthy new years to come.
Felixstowe Fire Station John Goodwin
The news of our Fire Station being downgraded to an "on call station" from a "day time crewed" and night time "on call" is yet another blow for the residents of our area. We have been in the forefront of community service cuts in health, police and now our Fire Service. I am a great fan of the Fire Service for numerous reasons, they are the lowest cost service per head of population in the country and one of the top, in terms of performance. Locally we have enormous
risk on our doorstep in the form of the Port and associated warehouses and haulage depots. We have a plethora of residential and nursing care homes all full of vulnerable people. We also have the prospect of being cut off from the outside world by the ongoing A 14 problems. Fire calls in Felixstowe are very low which is a good thing, does this mean because we have few call outs, ("shouts" in fire service speak) we do not need fire cover. I believe one of the reasons why we have so few "shouts" is due to the sterling work that our fire crews do in terms of Community Safety. The need for combined Fire Service Authorities nationally to accept 25% cuts in funding is well publi- cised. Suffolk being a County run service gets funding via the County Council and taking into account the fact we enjoy the lowest cost per head of population, the decision has been made to ask our Fire and Rescue Service to find 11.5% savings over four years. Fellow County Council colleague Nick Barber and I are holding meetings with Fire Chiefs to try and get the Felixstowe plan reversed. The decision has not yet been made to go ahead with this downgrading of our Fire Station, decisions will come after a 3 month consultation period between January and April this year. The proposals will be published in the Fire Service Integrated Risk Management Plan which will be available at the start of the consultation period. The Chief Fire officer has agreed to attend a public meeting in Felixstowe as part of the IRMP consultation exercise, venue, date and time will be made known as soon as the IRMP is published.
County Council budgets
Much has been written about County Council savings and the impact on our communities and much has also been written about the County Council's plans for a new way of working. The budg- et cuts currently being worked through are in recognition of the awful mess we were left in by the last government. The savings that we need to find in this current financial year are in the region of 40 million pounds which is a very large amount of cash to save. The New Strategic Direction is the fresh way of working that will come on stream in future years. Meanwhile vicious savings must be found from somewhere, much of this involves working smarter, some by better procurement and some by losing numbers employed, either by natural wastage or sadly, some by redundancy. Services that have traditionally been provided by Suffolk County Council will be taken on by all sorts of other bodies. Things like the local library may well be run by the staff, the parish council or some other organisation, responsibility will still lay with the County Council but the service will be run by the new providers. Run with less layers of management and more efficiency, however in the case of our library it would take some doing to run it with more enthusiasm than that shown by the present team. Other County Council services in Felixstowe that may be run by others include the Queens Road day care centre and someone has expressed an interest in running the LEAP centre. Everything is in the very early stages but the real savings will come in the big budget areas, things like adult care, children and young people and health. Also on the cards is a closer working rela- tionship with the police, something I like to think we already enjoy here in Felixstowe.
May 2011?
The flurry of county wide political leaflets may well mean there is an election in the offing for May 2011. I suppose for those colleagues condemned to eternal opposition, the ability to promise
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