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Middlesbrough Mayor Ray Mallon looks to the future
Krysta Eaves, Evening Gazette Aug 18 2012

PLANS have been unveiled which show Middlesbrough Mayor Ray Mallon’s vision for how he hopes the town will look in 2020.
Middlesbrough 2020 - The Place to Live, Work and Visit details the council’s plans on how the town will look in eight years’ time.

A draft document of the vision has been seen by the Gazette. Aims include creating:
a town that is clean, safe and healthy;
a learning town, in which families and communities thrive, and
a town that continues to transform.
The mission statement comes as the authority continues to battle multi-million budget cuts while coping with a range of issues linked to deprivation.
Among its priorities, the council states that it will work to ensure that crime and anti-social behaviour “continues to fall” as well as ensuring that local people live longer and healthier “no matter where they live”.
The most recent figures from Cleveland Police show that crime in the Middlesbrough district fell 11.2% in the three months to the end of June compared with a year earlier.
The council’s vision added that it will prioritise improvements in maths and literacy to address below average levels of education.
Middlesbrough ranks fourth nationally as having the highest percentage of schools failing to meet Government standards, according to the latest data issued by the Department for Education.
The council says it will also work with partners to ensure that local people, especially young people, have the right qualifications and skills to successfully compete in the job market. Middlesbrough’s unemployment rate currently stands at 7.9% - the third highest in the country.
There are also plans to improve the town centre and visitor experience in order to attract more visitors to the town which will in turn “increase inward investment”.
The council says it will measure its successes in a number of ways, including seeing if there is a reduction in unemployment, an increase in visitors to the town and a reduction in the number of children who are looked after.
It is intended that the vision will be launched at a full council meeting on September 5 before it is rolled out to the public through brochures and social media.
Minimal one-off costs of less than £1,000 will be incurred to design and print the documentation, which will also be available to download electronically.

Mr Mallon declined to comment on the vision.

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Bubba
12:03 PM on 18/8/2012
Pure fantasy. Dream on....

RockandaHardPlace
12:47 PM on 18/8/2012
And the money will come from....?
There are no more Labour government grants to apply for, they spent all the money and maxed out the national credit card before they left! Guess this is really Ray Mallons way of saying that we can forget any hope of a Council Tax freeze if the government repeat the offer to cover a 2.5% rise again.
Get ready for the mother of all Council Tax hikes next year. More outrageous Labour-style spending from our Labour-supported mayor. Middlesbroughs Labour- controlled council, making sure you stay deprived, so they don't have to be!

finnsgran
1:21 PM on 18/8/2012
The mayor and his cronies live in cloud cuckoo land.

darkcloud
1:29 PM on 18/8/2012
He should be the mayor of Tombstone, he has had that many pans on the boil at the same time the gas has run out, he and this council is as much use as a back pocket in a waistcoat.

LOOPYLOO
1:43 PM on 18/8/2012
One miniute he tells us things are dire and will be for years next thing out pops another Vision .You can have as many visions as you want Mr Mayor. Like all the ones before you they either have failed or you have admitted they have been errors of judgement. Gotta give it to you, you're a trier, very very trying. Stop hanging on do the right thing for the people of the town...GO , I here mystic meg needs an assistant , that is the job for you.

Indie
4:39 PM on 18/8/2012
Does that mean he will still be here in 2020 which is 5 years after the next local elections?

auction
5:21 PM on 18/8/2012
He declined to comment on his own vision??? says it all

ANONAMOUSE
9:31 PM on 18/8/2012
A town that is clean? So what is council tax for now pre-vision?
Shouldnt this be a right anyway without the need for a vision, Parts of the town are a disgrace with roadside litter and rundown estates.
The town extends further than just outside of Mallon Towers Mr Mallon

danniboi
1:32 AM on 19/8/2012
Mallon is a fool.
The Gazette should change its name to the Evening Labour News / Union rag.
The council waste time and money thinking about things and making bad decisions.
Please spare me the spiel, how about asking what the folk of Middlesbrough do want ?
"Mallon declines to comment" was the best part of that story for me, the man has nothing good to say anyhow.
What a Spineless media we have...

danniboi
1:37 AM on 19/8/2012
Lmao, he wont be here in 5 years time, who's he kidding, the most unpopular man in the town won't get another term, he claims to be an "Independent" when really he's pro Labour and in bed with the council. This is a man who won't take a pay cut on his £65,000 a year while others get the sack, this is a man who faced 14 police disciplinary charges in a town he claims he wants to clean up. Come off it!