Councillor Denis Brett has said criticism of a lack of budget scrutiny is not helpful. Speaking to Andrew Robinson on Warminster Community Radio, Cllr Brett defended his Finance and Audit Committee by saying that the budget had been worked on with officers for several months.
At the budget meeting on Monday, former town councillors Pip Ridout and Chris Spender spoke from the public gallery to express their concerns about the council’s budget. Pip Ridout, who remains a Wiltshire Councillor for Warminster West, asked: “Where is the scrutiny from you thirteen as a corporate body?” Both Mrs Ridout and Mr Spender resigned from the finance committee when they were councillors over a disagreement with fellow Conservatives on budgetary matters. Neither sought reelection to the town Council at the elections last May.
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