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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 1:14:02 GMT 1
from greenock telegraph.
teenagers and their parents have hit out at council bosses over the closure of a youth club.
the popular I youth zone club, in clyde square faces an uncertain future because inverclyde council wants to use the premises for office accommodation.
parents say that the club that runs five nights a week and on a Saturday is a godsend in keeping youngsters off the street.
council bosses say the premises which also serve as the current election office, are needed to organise the upcoming local government poll this year.
it will be handed back on wednesday 1st february and in the meantime an alternative location is being sought
a council spokesman said "the I zone youth club was a pilot programme established to allow us to bid for potential funding for a three year project to run in greenock town centre.
we have yet to hear whether this has been successful..the temporary location is the current election office which is needed to organise the scottish local government elections this year....
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Post by myfindhorn on Jan 28, 2012 1:22:55 GMT 1
well that is just the usual council crap, they are never happy and ,they wonder why they have problems with the young in the town. They forget that the youth of today is the voters of tomorrow.
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 14:48:58 GMT 1
We never hear how much the council pours into places like the Craigend Resource Centre do we? The East End of Greenock has several of these places all staffed by, 'community workers' and frequented by odd groups of people.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 14:53:38 GMT 1
they want kids off the street into places were they are safe and yet they do something like that...how much bloody office space do they need.....if our daughter was young i would be pleased at her going to a place like that.....now they have the street corners again...SHESHHHH
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Post by myfindhorn on Jan 28, 2012 15:58:51 GMT 1
The workers at Craigend are built in with the bricks...........................no one and I mean no one who is popular or skilled is allowed in if they prove more popular than the workers, besides they dont't want to enpower the people they want to keep them within their power to keep their jobs, I mean how hard is it to get a class up and going when someone else is taking the classes............................forgot mates club take the classes. EASY STREET
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:27:14 GMT 1
Yes horn, that accords precisely with my assessment. I have always said that the kids who go to these things are kids that would not cause bother anyway. The bad ones will always be hanging about the streets, looking for trouble in full knowledge that the Children's Panel will cosset them.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 16:42:00 GMT 1
i hope they have a change of heart on this situation.....office space....they have offices all over what do they want with that little place....there are plenty of other places empty
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:47:41 GMT 1
Yes, offices everywhere filled with overpaid gits who have endless meetings and, 'strategies'. They have put the Central Library into a building that was regarded in 1968 as unsuitable for use as a modern library, hence the new build. Any time I have been in the main library it has well used. Again, I smell shite!
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 28, 2012 16:49:18 GMT 1
with the amount of books that the library has how are they going to fit them all in to wallace place....it used to be a library many years ago but probably not a lot of folks read at that time.....i look forward to seeing how this is going to work out.....it will be like a cottage library
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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 18:13:25 GMT 1
I remember it well. The school encouraged us to use it and it was awful. Full of dank corners and even then, unfit for purpose. It had been built as the main Post Office and Telephone Exchange and when they moved all that to the big (James Watt pub), Andrew Carnegie's Trust paid for it to become a library. That of course was in the late Victorian period. Over the past 40 years, the council have spent millions of our money on that and other buildings.
Let them pat themselves in the back but let's not forget that less is NEVER better, we have been transported back to the 60s. Incompetent bastards.
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