SWEEPING budget savings, which councillors will vote on today, could lead to an increase in disease outbreaks, reduced consumer protection and debt counselling, and could increase a fee by 520 per cent, according to a council report.
Argyll and Bute Council decides today (Thursday February 22) whether to adopt a new budget, which includes savings totalling £5,673,100 over 2018-21, and also cutting 36 jobs.
‘Service redesigns’ across departments strive to reduce costs, as well as increase charges to maximise income generation, and ‘stop doing work that is not a duty of a council’.