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Keep profiteers away from Lewisham contracts

This petition was published by Max Calò on Jul 09, 2008
Closed on Jul 10, 2008
Result:
Thank you for your support, I closed the petition so suddendly because I learned something I didn't know yesterday, that the rise in tariff came out of a decision of the Mayor in what is a bogus budget saving exercise, In effect an increase of Council Tax dressed as something else.
Details of this are available in the Mayor and Cabinet Papers of 5th March 2008, item 8.
I am still thinking to start a petition to introduce transparency for Council contracts but that will have to be independent from the CPZ issue.

We the undersigned ask Lewisham Council to rescind the contract with the current CPZ operator because of the sudden and unreasonable 40% price increase imposed to the public in this historical moment when prices of public services ought to be more then ever under control.

We also ask that any future contract between the Council and its contractors include a clause stating that contractors wishing to increase their prices above a certain reasonable amount (amount to be made known to the public) need to re-apply for the contract.

This petition is now closed.

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