WC secret sessions
Concern has been raised by Wiltshire's Liberal Democrats about key decisions being taken behind closed doors at County Hall. The decision taken on Tuesday to extend yet again the contract with DC Leisure (now Places for People Leisure Management Ltd) to run 11 of the county's leisure centres was taken in private session following the council's cabinet meeting. This is the third time this contract has been extended. Leader of the Lib Dem Group, Jon Hubbard, said "At the meeting I expressed concern that we were extended a contract that has already been extended and that this flies in the face of good practice and open decision making. "I don't understand why this had to be done in secret, and despite repeated requests to be given the reasons for it being done behind closed doors I have had no response. In fact, I'm still not clear how much I am allowed to comment on as the advice I received was that I could not talk about the item until a formal decision on what will be published in the minutes of the meetin
