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My point exactly Vince!
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Vince Russett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 June 2001 07:23
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HLF Session at the SMRUG Meeting
John Wood has raised an ugly point about the HLF funding for SMRs. I
understood at the beginning of the process that there would be moneys
available to help hard-pressed (well, no, unfunded) SMRs like the one in
North Somerset develop the service to a point where it was available to the
public to a national standard.
During the process, the dread phrase 'no money for backlog' began to be
heard, and now we see the same situation that has been familiar all along:
those SMRs with sufficient staff and resources to draw up the endless
beaurocratic documents that HLF require get the money: those like mine that
don't stay in the doldrums.
I don't the blame the people who are getting the money - good luck to them.
But the way it is set up has failed my council and its tax payers. 'To he
that hath shall it be given' etc. Am I bitter about it? You bloody bet I
am.
The only way I can see smaller and underresourced SMRs ever being able to
tap into this is for someone (EH?) to provide seedcorn money for bids to be
made. I suppose the only thing about that is it lets councils who don't
allocate resources to SMRs effectively off the hook.
Vince 'now you see him, now you don't' Russett
Archaeologist and SMR officer
North Somerset Council
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