25 January (Part 1) - Jane bows out
A couple of hours was wasted yesterday looking for background information on the Really Local Group that ran the
Sidcup Storyteller now in liquidation but stlll
keeping the doors open on the back of someone’s slush fund. Well someone must be
paying the wages and the electricity bill. I didn’t learn anything of interest and moved on to trying to link senior Bexley management names to RLG’s downfall.
In doing so I stumbled across the name Jane Richardson and whilst it probably has nothing to do with keeping cinemas afloat I was more than a little
surprised to see Bexley advertising for a new Deputy Director of Housing and Strategic Planning.
Jane Richardson has held that position for a month longer than BiB has been in existence and is paid more than £130,000 a year. I always
thought she was a cut above the other senior officers on parade at Council meetings, certainly in the early years when she easily outclassed the
pretty much universal incompetence on display. Unlike her colleagues who have all thankfully been shown the door, Jane always seemed to be on top of her brief.
Google found four job advert links purporting to show the details but only the fourth of them - BlueSteps - actually did so.
I have no idea if Mrs. Richardson has found herself a better job or decided to call it a day. 80 year old men do not guess younger women’s ages; last time I did so what I thought might be 48 turned out to be 61.
I hope she is leaving for all the right reasons and not because her Strategic Planning has run out of road.