Month: July 2015

It’s hard to know where to start with this story and I am not sure where this story will end but I think it’s fair to say we have something of a mess on our hands with the Argyll & Bute Alcohol & Drugs Partnership generally known as the ADP. The funding for ADPs comes… Continue reading How Argyll & Bute Works: Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP)

I have written before about the excessive secrecy within the council so let me give you a brief update with some further examples of this: Budget issues Officers have refused to provide me with the budget pack which was taken off me at the end of the budget seminar in June, see here for more… Continue reading How argyll & Bute works: giving councillors the mushroom treatment

Sale of Castle Toward and the Bute & Cowal Area Committee I am still no further forward with getting any evidence to support the assertion that the bypassing of the area committee for the sale of this property was because it was a “strategic” property and some years ago the council had agreed only the… Continue reading How Argyll & Bute works: update on various matters

Sorry folks, an unfinished version of this was published by mistake earlier, This is what you should have got. One of the issues in the complaint against me by the senior officers of the council relates to the privatisation of the council’s care at home service. While I am unable to mention anything of what… Continue reading How Argyll & Bute works: the sad tale of the care workers

In a number of previous posts, I have referred to the fact that the area committee was bypassed when the Castle Toward estate sale was being considered. The most recent post on this is here. It’s worth reading the link in the above post to the correspondence to see what I was told about a… Continue reading How Argyll & Bute works: Castle Toward and the saga of the area committee

Some of you may have seen Michael Russell’s list of 10 questions to the chief executive of the council. In case you didn’t, here they are: The questions asked by Mr Russell are as follows: 1) When did the prospective purchasers first approach the Council ? 2) What discussions did the Council have with the… Continue reading How Argyll & Bute works: Castle Toward: Michael Russell’s questions and more

I am unable to say much about the deal to sell Castle Toward because it was an exempt item at last Thursday’s council meeting. The paper was tabled on the day and we only got to read it just before the item was taken. Readers may recall that I take the view property sales should… Continue reading How Argyll & Bute Works: Castle Toward again