Dundee’s SNP administration has finalised plans for savings worth £7.6 million in services next year, and repeated its pledge that there will be no impact on frontline operations.
A package to slash £3.7m from the revenue budget was approved at a meeting of the Changing for the Future board on Wednesday.
That sum comes on top of the £3.9m of administrative and technical savings agreed by the policy and resources committee earlier this week, and the whole list will now go to the full council on February 13.
The biggest saving from the meeting is the £935,000 from a 3% reduction in grants to outside bodies that already receive more than £100,000.
These organisations include Dundee Rep, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Leisure and Culture Dundee.
Education will take the next biggest hit of £587,000, and that money will be saved by moving early years staff from the primary into the nursery sector where their wages will be picked up by the Scottish Government.
Money will also be saved by more long-serving teachers taking early retirement.
Administration leader Ken Guild said the savings in third party payments continue from last year and while the measure was regrettable, it was being carried out as sympathetically as possible.
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