Well if it’s saving our illustrious leaders require should they not be looking at ways that they can cut costs rather than the inevitable cut to our already depleted services. For instance, I believe that there was plans to demolish the Black Box, a building built only in the 1970’s, due to the councils neglect and incompetence over the years. Proper gander led locals to believe that the costs for refurbishment would be comparable to a new building being erected. However, now we are told this figure is to be in excess of 60 million pounds! Am I missing something here? Is it to be built in Dubai? Will it be comparable to our town hall? One doubts it. Rather than swinging the demolition ball in the direction of the Black Box, I suggest a preverbal one is released in the direction our councillors for their systematic destruction of OUR town, this action may also help save a few pence on bananas...Disgraceful!

   £100m savings in 5 years?

Rochdale Council (or rather its taxpayers) could easily save £100,000,000 in ONE year - and probably get a better service for their money.

The problem is that Rochdale is infamous/notorious for having an officer led council. As such most councillor wouldn't say boo to a goose or challenge mismanagement or stupid vain decisions.

Those councillors that have the temidity to try to hold the council to account usually 'go' quickly.

This creates a scandlous situation where Rochdale Council is not properly held to account.

That is why it is so important for the media, public and organisations such as the Taxpayers' Alliance ask for the fact and truth about where our hard earned money is being wasted.

£100 million savings in a year from Rochdale Council? How?

1. Scrap the Rochdale Development Agency. Past dismal results prove it isn't fit for purpose.

2. Scrap the "Impact Partnership" Just how much is this deal really costing RMBC? Job creation- phooey. There must be fully scrutiny into how much these commercial services are costing our borough.

3. Scrap the wasteful PFI schemes (local new schools, street lighting etc) that means that we pay over the odds on tick for decades for shoddy, expensive services.

4. A simple cull of the flabby tier of senior executives at Rochdale Council, Impact Partneship, RDA and other associated QUALGOS. Back dated performance related pay for the rest. If they haven't/don't deliver good value for money service then they should go. No golden handshakes, bonuses or pension deals.

5. Scrap the crazy scheme for new Rochdale Council offices "Yelloway/Partnership House" Apparently £60million for this tin shed. (more like £70 million plus crippling interest and PFI service charges and contractual red tape).

6. How much has already been squandered on the farcical "town centre regeneration"? A seven figure sum. Plus more seven figure sums to come.

£100,000,000 can easily be saved in just ONE year. About a BILLION of OUR money in less than 25 years

A responsible journalist should investigate the waste and vain, crass civic stupidly that has been going on in Rochdale in the past few years.

The truth is out there.

Rochdalians deserve to know what has been going on in their name.

Hard working, decent people deserve better than this shocking, farcical civic waste.

   Senior managers have been asked to identify over 1000 jobs to be cut over the next twelve month! As for efficiency savings!…the saving will be made by a cut in services and not any radical change in the way day to day business is undertaken! It’s a con and the fat cats will get fatter!

   Rochdale does not know the words “value for money” take for instance a desktop computer costing Joe public £375.00! This council spends over £1000.00 through its procurement company! And this is the same scenario on thousands of purchases throughout all departments! All the department management would prefer to go out to tender, but the chief exec will not allow this! We are talking millions! Ask your local councillor or write to the council asking for details under the freedom of information act!

   I always worry when a publicly funded body says they are forming a new team to search out ways of saving money. First of all any well run organisation is constantly reviewing day to day the costs of their operations and that is usually done by the operations staff ,so are they saying that the staff they have appointed are inadequate.that would reflect on those who appointed them as being inadequate.So what we really have here is the present management covering up their serious mistakes by getting rid of services and people who they put in in the first place and making it look like a cost saving that they have discovered.

   How about a basic salary cap for any council employee of £40,000 per year? In the current economy, there are not a lot of jobs in Rochdale paying more than that.