Residents in Caerphilly County Borough are said to be “satisfied” with council services, according to a survey.
Earlier this year Caerphilly County Borough launched its ‘Household Survey’ to find out how residents rated services such as recycling, highways, community safety and leisure.
A total of 1,258 responses to the survey were received with 78% saying they were satisfied or very satisfied with the overall service provided by the council.
Libraries, parks and tourist attractions gained high praise from those answering the survey.
Cllr Keith Reynolds, Leader of Caerphilly County Borough Council, said: “The results from this survey are very encouraging, and it’s good to see that, despite these difficult financial times, our residents remain satisfied with the levels of service that our dedicated workforce deliver on a daily basis.
“We also acknowledge there are some areas in need of improvement too, so we remain committed to working to address these moving forward.”
As in previous years, dog fouling and littering were the biggest problems people felt affected their streets.
How satisfied is everyone with the planned council tax rate rises to pay for service?:
“Very Satisfied”, “Satisfied”, “Or Very, Very Unsatisfied as Everything is Terrible and it is worse than Hitler’s atrocities”?
See how easy it is to get a good answer? If I asked people that question with those answers I could claim 100% of respondents are satisfied with tax increases.
Yes it is very easily to manipulate a multiple choice questionnaire in order to achieve the desired outcome, and I dare say the council pay contractors to do just that.
Q – What rate of council tax rise would you be happy with.
A – 10%
B – 6%
C – 3%
D – 1%
100% of people said that they are happy with a council tax increase.
If the population of Caerphilly is around 35’000, 1’258 residents completed the survey with 78% saying they were satisfied overall with council services that means that in total about 3% of Caerphilly residents are satisfied overall with council services – meaning 97% of Caerphilly residents are unhappy with services provided by Caerphilly Council, I to can massage the figures to get the desired result.
I noticed that there were no questions for certain, high cost, council activities.
Are you satisfied that for nearly three years we have been paying suspended employees salaries in excess of £100,000 per year whilst paying their stand ins similar amounts?
Considerably more money is spent on `allied` services which the public were never asked about in this or or any other surveys, Consultants, planning experts, surveyors, valuers, solicitors, all replicating staff already employed by us in the Council, it gives these salaried staff a considerably easier ride when it comes to taking responsibility for things which go wrong, it lets Chief Officers Off The Hook, and it costs us many hundreds of thousands of pounds, from an ever depleting budget. The milions of pounds paid into the Elected Councillors Pension Scheme every year, the IT cost to provide Councillors with equipment at home they can`t use, home telephones (try to get hold of one), and the huge cost of hospitality spent by the elected members every year. Otherwise, why would`nt I be satisfied?