Perthshires for living
Let's get down to Perthshire business. There's no time to mess around. Is there a circus in the town? Can we get a witness? Who's in charge of this carnival we call a town. Welcome to the Carnival we call
Thanks for your messages of support from the business community and the citizens of Perth and Kinross.
Quotes from email
“Sadly so many of your comments are true. Businesses closing down streets dirty people don't smile How they won the award last year???
I had my business ruined by the council I don't live in Perth any more Why am I still proud to say I belong to Perth I did my bit for The Black Watch.
I find this site when I am looking through Visit Scotland and what it does. What has gone wrong with the place.?????”
Hi there , Just to let you know that i think that your web site is great keep it up as perthshire needs people to speak out. What frustrates me most is greedy xxxxxxxxxxx on there mission to look after themself's and there fellow xxxxxx with there back xxxxxx etc. They don't seem to care about the voters and there needs!. for example NHS health care to ninewells and trying to close down the maternaty ward at the PRI (no wonder at voting time that polling is at an all time low..........they are all losers!) i could go on and on.
There are big plans on more one way road's and pedestran areas to be in Perth city center! doesn't the Council not notice that shops are struggling as i have spoken to a lot of shop keepers who have lost alot of trade on the south st johns street and other pedestran areasPerthshire Business not Anti-Perthshire
We are looking for answers that have not yet been provided through the "Best value practise of Perth and Kinross Council". We want to know why the local Chamber of Commerce refuse to lobby the council and local politicians on behalf of local companies? Why are the shops in the town centre struggling? Where are the high tech industries? Why are local companies continually overlooked when it comes to the tendering process?The council argue that skills and expertise are not locally available. The skills exist in Perthshire please utilise them.
There is sufficient local expertise to provide satisfactory marketing and design for the Perthshire Brand and other local projects. Why have the council not awarded a single print, multimedia or internet project to a local company in over 5 years. Other local industries have similar issues.
January 2005 the Perthshire.com website went live on the internet. The website was commissioned outwith the area at the cost of £21,900 + VAT (£25,732). Economic development staff from Perth and Kinross Council provided an assurance that the website was legally compliant with current UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA October 2004 amendments) and that it was compliant with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 2 (October 1999). Minimum European standard for a local authority site is priority 2 AA WAG (October 1999).
In an email from the councils own software engineer in April 2005 it was admitted that the website was not compliant with current UK legislation. Perth and Kinross Council had employed a usability consultant to audit the website.
Excuse me! The economic development department just said they commissioned a legally compliant website that was delivered in January 2005. Two months later Perth and Kinross council spent council tax payers money on having the site audited and repaired by an accessibility consultant. In addition time was spent internally correcting technical errors on the website.
What was the true cost of Perthshire.com?
Why was the original developer not required to correct the faults in the website if it didn't meet the standard that the council had paid for. Perthshire Business is produced to the standard required for automated checking with W3C Accessibility Guidelines Priority level 3. A higher standard than the one legally required by a UK local authority. Compliance was build in at the start and there's always room for improvement.
December 2004, Perth and Kinross Council changed a project deadline to accommodate a company who were unable to meet the original project deadline. The company then went on to be awarded the contract to produce the Perthshire G8 magazine and accompanying CD. The CD part of the project was delivered without the promised accompanying sound track. The video footage was badly compressed and contained artifacts (fuzzy bits). The CD contained spelling mistakes and other errors. Yet again the project was signed off and paid for by the economic development department.
Perthshire Brand logo, the council have always been evasive when asked who produced it and how much it cost. Tell us we paid for it!
Total cost of rebranding Perthshire as Perthshire. Tell us we paid for it!
We could continue to highlight examples where the tax payer is paying extra hidden costs for services provided by the local authority. Enough people have taken the time to send their opinion.
What we and our readers want is a successful Perthshire filled with vibrant industry, busy shops and opportunity for all. We want local council tax money spent locally to grow business and attract new business. We welcome tourists from all nations.
We are not Anti-Perthshire were just looking for change.
Something Smells Wrong here
All information relating to the recent allegations by the MP for Perth & Perthshire North has been relocated to Dodgy Business where it belongs. We have no time on Perthshire Business for any one playing politics or politicians seeking to score team points.Dodgybusiness
Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère!
Cette
semaine Perthshire Business Identifie le
nom de l'écrivain de stylo de poison. When we discovered the chambers rules, knew what we were supposed to do, we didn't. We couldn't. We were compelled to leave. Compelled to stay. Compelled to disobey. And now here we arrive. Cause and effect versus free choice.
Abolishing the Bridge Trolls
The Dundee Courier is currently running a campaign to abolish the tolls on the Tay Road Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. Both bridges are important to the economic development of Perthshire.
Why did the Provost of Perth vote to raise the tolls to £4 last January?
Other areas with their own community websites:
Inverclyde - The councils view
The residents
viewEdinburgh - Edinburghsucks
Alternative Scotland - Firstfoot
