Falkirk
Council
www.falkirk.gov.uk
Falkirk Council scores 2/10.
The Council records the fact that it manages Common Good Funds for all four burghs (see list on right) and this includes £210,000 of "investment properties".
However, the Council, declined to provide a list of such assets since the cost would be prohibitive. Specifically, they stated that,
"As our property records are not yet electronic your request would result in a very lengthy and time consuming process of manually looking at appproximately 14,000 title deed cards in our system to determine the holding Account. It would therefore seem unlikely that your request could be processed in nterms of the Act given the resource implications."
How can the Council not know what Common Good assets it manages when those same assets are valued in the Accounts? Or perhaps "investment assets" means something else?
There are undeniably Common Good assets in, for example, Falkirk (Callander Riggs is one example). but the Council appear to have no record that these assets actually belong to the Common Good Funds of the 4 burghs
Common Good accounts for 2005-06
www.falkirk.gov.uk
Falkirk Council scores 2/10.
The Council records the fact that it manages Common Good Funds for all four burghs (see list on right) and this includes £210,000 of "investment properties".
However, the Council, declined to provide a list of such assets since the cost would be prohibitive. Specifically, they stated that,
"As our property records are not yet electronic your request would result in a very lengthy and time consuming process of manually looking at appproximately 14,000 title deed cards in our system to determine the holding Account. It would therefore seem unlikely that your request could be processed in nterms of the Act given the resource implications."
How can the Council not know what Common Good assets it manages when those same assets are valued in the Accounts? Or perhaps "investment assets" means something else?
There are undeniably Common Good assets in, for example, Falkirk (Callander Riggs is one example). but the Council appear to have no record that these assets actually belong to the Common Good Funds of the 4 burghs
Common Good accounts for 2005-06
2/10