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Monday, September 15, 2014

Do The Council Know What They're Doing?


Fans are still waiting for the promised Herefordshire Council statement about the Edgar Street leases.

A statement was promised, on Thursday, by leader Tony Johnson to be issued either that week or early this week. The Council still have not received the £65,000 owed by Hereford United. 

The debt comes at a time of heavy cuts to the Council budget. The authority have already admitted a 'complete misjudgement' over cuts to grass cutting after a 2,000 signature petition was amassed on the subject.

While that petition was listened to, one nearly four times the size was ignored by the Council relating to the club and Edgar Street. The Council have told the petitioner, since the initial rejection that took more than two months, that the rejection was partially on the grounds that some signatories were not resident in the County - and that there was no right of appeal to the rejection.

The Council's own rules accept signatories from outside the area, and allow the petitioner to request that the Council's Overview and Scrutiny Committee review the actions taken in regards to the rejection of the petition - leaving the petitioner with the impression that the Council appear unable to follow their own rules.

Bulls News understands that the Council have been conducting a review of the lease agreement, having used a third party to produce the leases originally with their own legal team not having full knowledge of the deal, before issuing the statement.

It all reminds of an old football chant "You don't know what you're doing".

A new petition is underway, calling on the Council to take action on the £65,000 debt. That petition is at https://www.change.org/p/herefordshire-council-please-take-the-necessary-legal-steps-to-ensure-full-and-immediate-payment-of-all-debt-owed-by-hereford-united-1939-limited-related-to-their-use-of-the-edgar-street-stadium#share