Council Work At both Full Council sessions in May I continued, along with Deputy Leader Cammy Day, to press Council Leader Adam McVey to meet Derek Mackay, the Finance Secretary and demand full and fair funding for Edinburgh. Edinburgh needs £200m for schools. It needs another £77m to partially meet…

Council Business Finances I extracted a commitment from the Council Leader before Full Council to work with Deputy Leader, Cammy Day, and seek a meeting with the Finance Minister to make the case for full and fair funding for Edinburgh. The need for this work was brought home by a…

Council Business Once again I asked the Council Leader if he, along with the Deputy Leader, would meet with the Finance Minister at Holyrood to make the case for full and fair funding for Edinburgh. Once again my enquiry was sidestepped and his reply framed as another question. “What cuts…

Council Business One of the few committees to meet in January is Governance, Risk and Best Value on which I serve. It considered two reports that are important for the Council. The first was Audit Scotland’s report for the Accounts Commission on Council funding in 2017/18. It reported that: “In…

Council Budget and the Holyrood Demonstration A joint trade union and COSLA (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) demonstration was held outside Holyrood on 12 December, the day before Full Council, in protest at the cuts faced by all Scottish local authorities.