ARGYLL and Bute Council last week agreed a budget promising ‘security, stability and success’.
Councillor Dick Walsh: a balanced budget despite a reduction in Scottish Government funding.
Twenty councillors voted for the administration’s budget motion, proposed by council leader Dick Walsh, defeating the one-year budget proposed by SNP group leader Councillor Sandy Taylor, which drew nine votes, and Councillor Michael Breslin’s Reform group amendment, which attracted three. The introductory report, presented by head of strategic finance Kirsty Flanagan at a full council meeting at Kilmory Castle, Argyll and Bute Council’s HQ in Lochgilphead, on Thursday February 23, stated more than 1,700 people responded to a consultation on which services matter most and where savings could be made.