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| Lord Mayor's gifts dilemma | Lord Mayor's gifts dilemma |
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| You know what it's like. Someone gets you a painting but there's just nowhere suitable to hang it. Sheffield's former Lord Mayor Sylvia Dunkley, a grand Tweeter during her year which ended in May, certainly does. | You know what it's like. Someone gets you a painting but there's just nowhere suitable to hang it. Sheffield's former Lord Mayor Sylvia Dunkley, a grand Tweeter during her year which ended in May, certainly does. |
| She has just published an annual report into her time as Sheffield's first citizen and says that the wood-panelled Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall makes it difficult to hang new pictures. Worse, she adds that getting any of the existing ones changed in the Grade II listed building: | She has just published an annual report into her time as Sheffield's first citizen and says that the wood-panelled Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall makes it difficult to hang new pictures. Worse, she adds that getting any of the existing ones changed in the Grade II listed building: |
| seems singularly fraught with difficulty. | seems singularly fraught with difficulty. |
| Dunkley continues: | Dunkley continues: |
| I was presented with several pictures during my year and am disappointed that I have just had to leave them propped up and that they can't be hung properly. It is also embarrassing if someone who has presented a picture comes to the parlour again and finds that their picture is not on display. | I was presented with several pictures during my year and am disappointed that I have just had to leave them propped up and that they can't be hung properly. It is also embarrassing if someone who has presented a picture comes to the parlour again and finds that their picture is not on display. |
| The veteran Liberal Democrat politician also recommends that the council drafts a policy on corporate gifts after finding it "frustrating" when receiving foreign guests as Sheffield's civic representative. She says: | The veteran Liberal Democrat politician also recommends that the council drafts a policy on corporate gifts after finding it "frustrating" when receiving foreign guests as Sheffield's civic representative. She says: |
| It goes without saying that foreign visitors in particular invariably come with a gift for the city and it is frankly embarrassing that the city has very little [to] offer in return or that someone has to dash out to acquire something suitable at the last minute. | It goes without saying that foreign visitors in particular invariably come with a gift for the city and it is frankly embarrassing that the city has very little [to] offer in return or that someone has to dash out to acquire something suitable at the last minute. |
| This issue really ought to be addressed. | This issue really ought to be addressed. |
| With the authority grappling with £57 million worth of spending cuts this year, don't expect too much though. | With the authority grappling with £57 million worth of spending cuts this year, don't expect too much though. |
| Kevin Meagher chaired the Mayor4Sheffield campaign and was a strategist in the Yes for the North West regional assembly campaign in 2004 | Kevin Meagher chaired the Mayor4Sheffield campaign and was a strategist in the Yes for the North West regional assembly campaign in 2004 |
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