PTE-PTA get together to 'clear the air'
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A MEETING between the South Yorkshire PTE and the South Yorkshire County council — since April the official PTA for the area — has been held to "clear the air" between the two bodies. Mr Francis Mallett, the county council's chief executive, told CM this week that the meeting had taken place largely in order to define "the not terribly easy" division of responsibility between PTA and PTE.
New route numbers, afait accompli by the PTE on a new brown and cream livery and a PTE plan to audit its own accounts have all caused some tension between the two bodies in the past, it is reported.
After the meeting Sir Ron Ironmonger said: "We now have a very much better understanding". One item which is still not resolved is that of the auditing of the PTE's finances. The PTE proposing that this task is carried out under its own auspices but the PTA is maintaining that, as the PTE is expecting to make a loss of £3.5m in the current year, the county treasurer should be allowed to audit the accounts. However this question will be discussed at a series of regular meetings which the two sides have agreed to mount.