Post subject: Re: Hull KR fans demand council investment in Craven Park
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:19 pm
SirStan
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Digger_the_Dog wrote:Asking the Council to help a business increase their profits by handing them millions of tax payers money? Yep, well thought through campaign this.
Post subject: Re: Hull KR fans demand council investment in Craven Park
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:27 pm
Stan2363
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hkrdavidhkr wrote:just had a similar arguement with my father who is staunch fc, and he too is of the the opinion that we made our own bed and should lie in in it. this is a all too common attitude, one which i believe to be wrong. anything that contributes to making the city of hull better should be fully supported. and having 3 top flight teams(or close to in city`s case) should be maintained and have backing, city failed in their first foray in the prem for a few reasons, but some of which was the backroom politics that control our city. hundreds of thousands was spent and wasted on a huge big screen tv(now removed) hundreds of thousands was spent on daft 2ft high frogs..... Why?
the list can go on and on as where money is wasted .
Council didn't pay for these it was a private investor i believe
Post subject: Re: Hull KR fans demand council investment in Craven Park
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:29 pm
hkrdavidhkr
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Joined: Mar 23 2009 Posts: 356
Stan2363 wrote:Council didn't pay for these it was a private investor i believe
taken from hdm
Fibreglass toad row
Fibreglass toads are coming to town. A ROW has erupted over plans to spend £200,000 worth of taxpayers' money on 100 fibre-glass toads in Hull.
The model toads will be placed around the city later this summer as part of a festival marking the 25th anniversary of the death of poet Philip Larkin.
Most of the funding for the £290,000 toad project is being met by Hull City Council with a one-off £200,000 grant.
For the same money the local authority could afford to repair 3,500 potholes.
Stan2363 wrote:Council didn't pay for these it was a private investor i believe
taken from hdm
Fibreglass toad row
Fibreglass toads are coming to town. A ROW has erupted over plans to spend £200,000 worth of taxpayers' money on 100 fibre-glass toads in Hull.
The model toads will be placed around the city later this summer as part of a festival marking the 25th anniversary of the death of poet Philip Larkin.
Most of the funding for the £290,000 toad project is being met by Hull City Council with a one-off £200,000 grant.
For the same money the local authority could afford to repair 3,500 potholes.
Post subject: Re: Hull KR fans demand council investment in Craven Park
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:50 pm
barham red
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Joined: Jul 12 2007 Posts: 5410
hkrdavidhkr wrote:taken from hdm
Fibreglass toad row
Fibreglass toads are coming to town. A ROW has erupted over plans to spend £200,000 worth of taxpayers' money on 100 fibre-glass toads in Hull.
The model toads will be placed around the city later this summer as part of a festival marking the 25th anniversary of the death of poet Philip Larkin.
Most of the funding for the £290,000 toad project is being met by Hull City Council with a one-off £200,000 grant.
For the same money the local authority could afford to repair 3,500 potholes.
They didn't lay out the cash after the uproar caused by the HDM article you've quoted and it was funded by the private sector. AFAIK
hkrdavidhkr wrote:taken from hdm
Fibreglass toad row
Fibreglass toads are coming to town. A ROW has erupted over plans to spend £200,000 worth of taxpayers' money on 100 fibre-glass toads in Hull.
The model toads will be placed around the city later this summer as part of a festival marking the 25th anniversary of the death of poet Philip Larkin.
Most of the funding for the £290,000 toad project is being met by Hull City Council with a one-off £200,000 grant.
For the same money the local authority could afford to repair 3,500 potholes.
Post subject: Re: Hull KR fans demand council investment in Craven Park
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:20 pm
UllFC
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Joined: Mar 27 2004 Posts: 17375
Mild Rover wrote:The point about the KC stadium being a money spinner for the council strikes me as a bit disingenuous. When will the council start to see a profit on their initial 40-odd million pound investment? To Baristarize you - was there a compelling business case? I'm not sure there is a bad time for the local community to request spending - there may well be better and worse times to get it though. Otherwise, I agree.
it was stated in the HDM a few years ago that the council actually pay rent for their facilities at the KC, i.e. they rent offices in the ground they own...you really coulden't make the public sector up!
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