Thursday, March 11, 2010

Full Council today

Full Council meeting today - main agenda can be found here; and individual papers via CPOL here ...

... the main focus of the day is undoubtedly going to be the 'Grant Aid to Third Parties' report - which is here.

It's not just the headline figure of £1million being removed from the voluntary sector - no one seems to have picked up on the wider ramifications ... check out paragraph 2.2 on page 1 here:

"Financially, the leverage of other funds achieved by the grant aided projects was over £9 for each £1 of Council grant."

You can thus multiply that £1million cut by NINE if you want to find the real cost of what's about to be pushed through by the SNP/Lib-Dem Coalition later today :-(

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

How on earth are we going to pay the extra 100 million for the tram line...or has the hootsman got its facts wrong again?

Andrew said...

Anonymous

Thanks for the comment - apparently, a full update report (to include current and ongoing costs) is coming before Full Council on 27th May, so more should be revealed then?

Andrew

Anonymous said...

Thanks Andrew, although technically it was a question rather than a comment. I'll check your blog at the end of the month for a response. I assume that in the current climate any overrun is going to be an issue.

Andrew said...

Anonymous

Point taken - and yes, I'll be sure to blog about the Full Council Meeting on the 27th May and the reports therein!

Andrew