18 February 2008

Tartan Week? Nice Work If you Can get It

At the Scottish Borders Council meeting on Thursday 21st February the first item on the agenda (of course it is not necessarily the most important despite being first up) is ..... pause for effect....

Visit To Tartan Week
Consider report by Chief Executive seeking approval for travel and accomodation expenses for representatives to go to Tartan Week in New York. (copy attached)

This item is scheduled to last 5 minutes and I assume the attached papers set out how much this is going to cost. Do we seriously need to even consider it? Who plans to go on this junket, what is it supposed to achieve? Given the time allocated to discussion I assume the Chief Executive is not expecting much opposition?

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