New Cleansing contract

We had the first seminar to help to inform Councillors regrading the current contract and factors that will impact on letting a new 10 year contract, plenty to chew over and help in that process.  This is one of the most important contracts the Council enters into, current spending is £4.9M pa, so we are talking about letting a contract of well over £45M

I think the most disappointing fact was that no opposition members attended, 5 Lib Dems, 2 Independent and 1 Labour were all missing

When we join the debate to make the final decision will the opposition members be informed enough to make the right judgement?