We were taken to task after Tuesday’s blog which referred to Boston Borough Council as insignificant and unimportant.
“There are many problems with Boston Borough, but I don't think we are unimportant or insignificant,” one councillor wrote to say.
“We may be in the great scheme of things, of course, but I think labelling us as this is not a fair comment and will serve only to make people like me feel rather dejected,”
We’re sorry about that - but we spoke as we found, and with no intention of criticising the people who work there –or some of the councillors
The fact is that Boston is ranked 331^st out of the 354 English local authorities by population-  which makes it small.
It is also the case that the bulk of its income goes towards paying a dwindling workforce and maintaining its offices, or for the cost of benefit administration and payments - something that is set to change.
No wonder that Lincolnshire County Council’s leader, Martin Hill, appeared on BBC’s Look North late one night before Christmas and declared that that the county should take over the running of Lincolnshire from the current district authorities.
We seem to be paying for admin more than once, which scarcely makes sense in these cash-strapped times.
No, despite local pride, the fact remains that Boston Borough Council is indeed small and insignificant – and as we pointed out in the same blog, currently in the hands of a leadership with no money and no ideas.
Nonetheless, Boston tries to talk the talk – rather like a small terrier barking at the bigger dogs in the park as if to say that it could best them if only it was let off its lead.
The slogan for a number of years now has been “Boston - a great past, an exciting future”
Certainly, the past was better than the present, and although our crystal ball is a little smeary these days, we have a strong feeling that the future will  definitely be less than great.
It always seemed to us that becoming a councillor was a little like being one of those great landscape gardeners of history – such as Lancelot Capability Brown – who, of course, married a Boston girl.
Your job is to take a barren landscape, plan what it will look like in, say, fifty years’ time, plant a few saplings, sow a few seeds and then hope that you got it right – because you’ll be long dead before the garden looks even halfway decent.
Certainly, there has been something seedy about our administrations in recent years, but sadly everything in the garden is not lovely – quite the reverse.
Saplings sown years ago such as the Assembly Rrooms and the Haven Gallery are currently in the process of being felled – to provide for fuel for the bank balances.
To be fair, not all the problems the fault of the authority, as in recent years we have seen severe cuts in local council income.
But it is the way that the issues are being dealt with that causes us concern.
Just as governments hammer smokers, drinkers and drivers to keep their coffers filled, so it is that our leaders in Boston think that motorists will endlessly tolerate increased parking fees – even though the famous Portas Report, which the council enthusiastically embraces in so many respects – advocates provision of free parking to stimulate business and the local economy.
And perhaps they think that we don’t resent swingeing increases in the death duties charged at our local cemetery and crematorium.
If you have the time and patience to struggle through it, Boston’s draft annual financial report was under discussion earlier this week.
It runs to 100 pages of mind-numbing accountancy-speak, and we defy almost anyone to make any kind of sense of it.
In fact, we'd go further, and offer our sympathies to councillors grappling to understand what it's all about.
Whatever happened to plain English?
One interesting point, though, - which in many ways underlines our earlier comments -  is the way that not only have the senior management tiers within the council shrunk, but many of them are no longer full time.
Whilst the report reminds us that our £105,000 a year Chief Executive is not a direct employee of the authority, but is contracted on an interim consultancy basis, it fails to point out that he only works for 15 days a month, making him – pro rata – as highly paid as some of the biggest local authority chief executives  ... even though he works for one of the smallest.
We share the post of Strategic Director (S151) fifty-fifty with East Lindsey District Council - and our Head of Business Transformation works part time.
When the news was announced that the Chief Executive’s contract was being extended until March next year, council leader, Peter Bedford, said there was “still important work for the council to complete with a settled chief executive.”
Perhaps one day soon we may learn what it is – as it would be nice to see something important come from our so-called leaders for once.

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