To: Councillor Linden Kemkaran
Save vital Kent services
The council must drop any plans to close libraries and waste disposal centres (tips). These essential civic services must be kept open.
Why is this important?
Two essential civic functions are threatened with abolition by the Reform administration of Kent County Council. These are:
Public libraries: every civilised society needs a modern public library for the education and pleasure of all ages
Waste disposal centres ('Tips') are being closed in some areas, risking fly-tipping, rats and the failure of recycling to which our country is committed.
Many people are cynical about this County Council, but they have the ability to wreak enormous harm on our civil society, built up over generations, by 'savings' to avoid proper taxation of the better-off in our County. They will suffer, but it is the least well-off who will suffer the most.
If you want your children to read and learn, if you want to do local research, if you want to master IT, if you just want to read the newspapers and magazines , or run small group meetings - come to our Kent Library Service.
If you rely on a regular 'trip to the tip' for items the District Council will not collect, you will appreciate of very efficient Waste Disposal Centres.