© South Wales Evening Post - 2 September 2005
It is difficult to know how worried we should be about the future of a number of major projects in Swansea, including the long, drawn-out saga of the city's leisure centre. Certainly the minutes we obtained of last month's Corporate Management Team appear to be a cause for concern.
Only the council's top directors attend this meeting, and when phrases such as "major financial risks" and "key elements . . . not going to plan" spring out, we should treat them with the utmost seriousness.
Unfortunately, as is the way with local authorities, the minutes are steeped in council jargon, with only the briefest allusion to the actual problems.
We have asked the council for a fuller explanation, but an authority spokesman has come back with a statement that sheds little further light on what is wrong.
However, we are able to reveal that deputy chief executive, Bob Carter, is sufficiently worried that some things are not going to plan, to warn that "there is a very difficult task ahead".
The council should come clean and make a full and unambiguous statement on the seriousness and the nature of its difficulties.
