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There was a pleasant suprise this morning! The dumped furniture in Columbia Close had been removed.
But there was bad news as well! Some more bulk rubbish has been dumped during the day in another part of Columbia Close.
And while talking about Gloucester City Services and the prompt removal of furniture first thing this morning, there have been no complaints about the emptying of the large dustbins in each block.
This is two weeks in succession that everything has gone well in the refuse collection department! Lets us hope that saying something positive is not the proverbial kiss of death.
A fifth noise log relating to last weekend's problem, was received today. And the log was from a resident who had up to now always declined to complete one for fear of retalliation.
And the log not only listed the weekend's disturbance, but other instances from the beginning of June.
Departments of the Council were overjoyed when we immediately faxed this latest log.
It appears that there is some "secrecy" concerning the e-mail addresses of elected councillors!
We wanted to send emails to our three ward councillors and needed the email address of two of them.
Our telephone inquiry to the Council was put through to the IT department ... and we were told that these could not be given out over the telephone.
Fair enough .... can you fax them to us, we asked?
Err. Sorry, was the sheepish reply.
After pressing the point, we were led to believe that we were not supposed to know the email addresses of our ward councillors.
Is this open government? Will the council be restricting its "snail mail" address in the future?
Evenntually, we were told that a "director" would be going poping down to the IT department and would call us back with the addresses.
We waited until 5.30 p.m. when, in desperation, we printed out copies of the emails to the two ward councillors and entrusted them to the Royal Mail at a cost of 26p each.
Now "best value" suggests that these two emails could have gone for nothing. If we had had the two email addresses then they could have gone at the same time as "blind copies" as the one to the councillor whose address we do have!
The good people at TenZero have fixed the problem that has knocked out our guest book for the past few weeks.