Bowling greens, family support centres and the cessation of the city centre DUNCAN Project which aimed to reduce crime in Dundee are affected in a fresh round of cuts amounting to £3.3 million proposed by the city council.
Finance convener Councillor Willie Sawers proposed the cuts this afternoon, which also include cutting street sweeping teams, cutting a senior post at the Young Mum’s Unit at Menzieshill High School and transferring the responsibility for all the remaining sports facilities and swimming pools at secondary schools and at Craigowl, Fintry and St Andrews Primary schools to registered charity Leisure and Culture Dundee.
Cllr Sawers told The Courier the council was committed to no compulsory redundancies and added that he believed “council taxpayers will be happy that for the seventh year in a row there would be no rise in the council tax.”
He said: “I don’t believe the savings tabled today will have a negative impact on services.”
For more on the council’s budget cuts for 2015/2016, see Wednesday’s Courier.
