The legal threat is understood to have come from a Rise service user. The committee also received a report which said that a cross-party working group should have been set up in 2018 to oversee the commissioning process – but this never happened. Even if it had been set up, councillors would not have been involved in evaluating the contract bids and, the committee was told, procurement law required councils to select the best tender. The report said: “Awarding public contracts is tightly regulated to ensure all bidders are treated equally and to ensure the process is non-discriminatory and transparent. “It is unlawful to design a procurement to artificially narrow competition.
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The moment the seafront lights were recovered by a council officer THE police have been asked to investigate how two historic Brighton seafront street lamps ended up for sale on the internet. Green councillor Marianna Ebel shared the news at a virtual meeting where councillors debated how to protect other “heritage assets”. Councillor Ebel said: “Theft is a police matter after all.” She was responding to a motion by Conservative councillor Robert Nemeth which was prompted by the incident involving the old lanterns last year.
Seafront lights being safely stored Councillor Nemeth asked for a report into the possibility of setting up a group to help list all council heritage assets, whether in their original position, in storage or undergoing repair.