LET’S get the bad news out of the way first. Plenty of people are less than happy about the council’s changes to the uplift of rubbish. But it looks as if three-weekly bin collections will be a cakewalk compared to what might be coming down the road over the next three years. There is understandable concern among council members and officials about the imminent funding settlement – but the timing of the announcement leaves little time to deal properly with the implications before a budget must be set in February.
Our councillors get plenty of flak in these columns – much of it merited – but it is hard not to sympathise with them when they are having to make very difficult spending decisions that will impact people’s lives in a big way across Argyll and Bute.