The way Liverpool Council is encouraging people to engage with a consultation on the future of the city’s governance has been branded “uninspiring and badly thought out” by a senior councillor.
Households across Liverpool are receiving letters through their door on how to take part in an exercise that could shape the way the local authority is led in future and may lead to the scrapping of the Mayoral position altogether. Residents are being asked to choose between the existing post, a leader and cabinet model and a committee system.
Cllr Richard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat group and advocate of the committee model, has cast doubts over the success of the document being issued to homes across the city. In an email seen by the ECHO, Cllr Kemp, who leads the largest opposition group at the Town Hall, told Dan Fenwick, Liverpool Council solicitor and monitoring officer, that he felt the letter was “one of the most uninspiring and badly thought through letters I have ever seen leave the council.”
