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Best way forward for the WM still up for discussion
B'ham Post 11 Jun 10
The row about the future of the West Midlands Leaders’ Board is far more than a political spat about what happens to a pretty much anonymous quango which, as far as can be ascertained, has achieved little of note since coming into existence last year.
There will be plenty of sympathy for Conservative councillors in the Black Country who want to save the public purse £2.3 million a year by killing off the board, although their case is weakened by the clumsiness of Walsall Council leader Mike Bird who thinks the quango employs 70 people when the true figure is 35, and who has also claimed incorrectly that the board’s budget is £3.5 million…