Councillor questions the cost of special uplifts

By
Mark Hood
– February 26, 2011Posted in: Environment, Enterprise and Transport, Fife Council Cuts, Glenrothes

Fife Labour councillor Ian Crichton has condemned the SNP/ Lib Dem administration running Fife Council for hiking charges for special refuse collections in Fife. The decision taken at this week’s budget meeting will see prices for road side collections increase from £10 to £25 per uplift next year.

Mr Crichton, the elected councillor for Glenrothes Central and Thornton, said ‘We have seen every time the council increase these charges a corresponding increase in the number of people fly tipping. This will result in more rubbish being dumped in our towns and villages while the cost of clearing up the mess soars.’

The councillor added ‘I don’t think the SNP / Lib Dem administration has thought through the impact this will have on Fife residents on low incomes, £25 is a great deal on money out of some families weekly budget. Once again we see an administration that seems to know the cost of everything but the value nothing.’

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About Mark Hood

Mark lives on Lochgelly with his wife Geraldine and his twin girls Lily and Daisy. Born in St Andrews in Fife in 1970, Mark attended St Agatha’s primary before going on to St Andrews high. Mark started his working life as an apprentice electronic technician working with Rodime the hard disk drive manufacturer. While working at Rodime Mark completed an HNC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The recession of the early 1990′s led Rodime into receivership. As a newly qualified apprentice work was hard to come by and Mark decided to enrol in an degree course at Edinburgh university to study Electronic Engineering. After a couple years Mark went on to work in the electronic industry before joining a Kirkcaldy based IT company as a workshop technician.