Month: January 2016

The following press release was issued this morning to the local newspapers and privately funded adverts will appear in them over the next several days. The full budget paper can be downloaded at the link below. This can still be the subject of change between now and 11 February, the day on which the council budget… Continue reading Budget Proposal from The Reform Group

The Reform Group intends to publish its alternative budget by early tomorrow morning but it may be worth going back to some previous posts to see why we will be taking the tack we plan to. Please have a read at the links below if you have not already read these: http://blog.breslin.scot/2015/11/  

I had hoped to publish our alternative budget proposals this morning but this needs to be put on hold for a day or so. We gave strategic finance staff a copy of the draft on 8 January and were told on Friday afternoon last week  that “there may be some competency issues”. I am not… Continue reading Alternative Budget from Reform Group

  I was intending to follow up the theme of the last blog but the work on an alternative budget got in the way. This will appear here early next week. In the meantime something else has arisen that I believe the public needs to know about. I was prompted this morning to write to… Continue reading Dunoon Gourock Ferry and How Argyll & Bute Works

It’s essential that we keep as much work as possible in Argyll & Bute and the council is holding what they have called procurement surgeries to assist local businesses. The press release about these that came out yesterday is shown below. Please pass on to as many local businesses as possible. Council is keeping local… Continue reading Procurement Surgeries