Thanet Green Party Councillors today expressed their support for Council Leader Cllr Ash Ashbee’s decision to call for help from the Secretary of State to ‘regularise the governance of Thanet District Council’.
Green Group Leader, Cllr Mike Garner, said “It has been clear for a long time that action needed to be taken on this serious issue. Indeed, we were elected in May 2019 on a platform that included addressing it and we’ve been calling for openness and transparency since. Recently, we have seen legal costs associated with the ongoing IDSC (Investigations & Disciplinary Sub-Committee) continue to rise past the £750k mark and will later this week hear about other significant financial risks which could see our reserves reduce to an unacceptably low level.
“We hope that this intervention will finally enable us to resolve the longstanding governance and culture issues at the Council and to work for the benefit of all the residents of Thanet.”