I don't see what all the fuss is about concerning the cost of biscuits and water consumed at committee meetings of Brighton and Hove City Council (Letters, October 15).

The meetings must be so boring, having to try to sort out all the numerous problems associated with our city, that some choice biscuits and designer mineral water seems a fair price to pay, particularly as this cost is negligible compared with the vast income collected.

And why shouldn't our chief executive have a nice pair of £800 armchairs for his office?

Lest we forget, he has the onerous task of running our entire city.

All of this is nothing compared with the practice of rewarding hundreds of thousands of pounds from public funds to the four headteachers at the former Stanley Deason School (now Comart).

I would personally provide a full lunch to the officers and councillors of our city if they debated this matter in some meaningful and unbiased way.

Then, hopefully, this endemic practice and dreadful waste of public money may be curbed once and for all.

-Charles Holcombe, Brighton