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Nostery Council announced yesterday that it intends to outsource the last remaining function it still performs itself: awarding contracts to run local services.
‘The people of Nostery have made their views clear,’ said council leader Dithmer
Ject. ‘It’s been more than ten years now since Nostery Council outsourced the provision
of all the services it provides, and in that time the local electorate have done
nothing but complain. In my view the quality of council services has been comparable
with what went before – it’s not as if last year’s vermin control workers protest
was the first time the city’s sewer system has back-
Public comment group Government Does It Better condemned the move. Gee-
Taxpayers’ lobby group Value For Money welcomed the move, but said it raised an obvious question. ‘What now is the point of Nostery’s fifteen city councillors?’ asked VFM’s Chief Agitator Arsnit Dengal. ‘It was already a disgrace that they were paid annual salaries of 28,000 bar for meeting once a year to award outsourcing contracts. What will they be doing to earn that money in future?’
When our reporter put this question to Dithmer Ject late yesterday, he said it was
nonsense to suggest councillors no longer had a role to play. ‘We continue to be
active as ambassadors for the city, state-
Nostery Council to outsource itself