YOUR recent reports about combining the chief executives of Wychavon and Malvern were interesting and ok as long as we do not end up with a giant county council.
Remember that these are the people who have destroyed Evesham shopping centre with their removal of car spaces from the main street and who won't make Swann Lane a two-way system again.
It was also interesting to see that a chief executive of a council earns about £100,000 a year, especially when you realise that each of the two housing associations in Wychavon has a chief executive on more than £160,000 a year (including pensions).
Before the creation of these two organisations (from one housing department), the two jobs were done by a housing manager and his assistant.
In today's money they would cost (according to current salaries at Wychavon) about £60,000 for the chief and £30,000 for his deputy. Room here for a merger?
They wouldn't suffer, both could retire on 50 per cent pay and lots more in pensions than they would have received in salary had there been no housing association gravy train rip-off in the first place.
Roy Moore
Badsey
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