In Costa Mesa, the budget battle was gladly taken up by a new city council, driven by Jim Righeimer, a backslapping real-estate developer whose burly physique and eagerness to scrap call to mind Friar Tuck.
The decision on the accrediting council "is as much driven by the department's decision to eliminate some of these schools in an orderly process as it was about going after ACICS," said Steve Gunderson, president of Career Education Colleges and Universities, a for-profit trade group.
Two new public relations positions with salaries of $135,000 per year, plus generous benefits, along with several other new positions with similarly generous salaries; high-priced lawyers, including some at $495 per hour, adding up to more than $1.7 million in seven months and counting, much of it spent on unnecessary and unsuccessful litigation driven by council hubris and errors.
John Thorp, Thameswey's managing director, sees potential for a big expansion in local energy schemes, driven by enterprising councils.
Angus Council leader Iain Gaul added: "This project is complex, but it is one where the outcome for our residents is being driven by both councils.
However, one lone truck – driven by a council worker who had not been asked to do so – was collecting rubbish from the Tajura area on Friday.
The project was driven by Bolton council, and the building was designed by the borough architect, with the theatre's first director, Robin Pemberton-Billing, devising the shape of the auditorium.
The question now arising is whether the bidding process for combined authorities represents covert reorganisation by the back door, driven by necessity, as councils struggle with even more severe spending cuts.
Malcolm Turnbull has been heckled by his fellow Liberals after declaring in a speech to their New South Wales state council that the party was not driven by "factions" and "back-room deals".
Jack says the council's change of heart was driven by the persistence of Wirangu elders and an active alliance of local surfers, hippies and artists, who found a sympathetic ear in the town's then-mayor, Kym Callaghan.
