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Monday evening saw the latest set of council committee meetings. At the Education Committee I was pleased to see that proposals are being brought forward for new schools in the Hilltown, Menzieshill and Kirkton areas. This is good news and builds on Labour's building programme which is coming to fruition just now.
It is important that parents, pupils and local communities make their voices heard on these proposals and respond to the formal consultation processes and play an active part in the project boards when these are established.
At the City Development Committee my colleague Councillor Laurie Bidwell had done the council a service by noticing that work was about to start on a contract at Douglas Terrace Walkway which had not been properly authorised. Some councillors thought that this was unimportant but this gets to the heart of what the council is for and the role of councillors in overseeing the work of officers. I am sure that it was an oversight but we nearly had the situation where a contract worth £723,579 was started without any authorisation to spend the money. Who would have paid if this had not been rectified? I will be writing to the Chief Executive to make sure that processes are in place to prevent such a thing happening again.
It is important that parents, pupils and local communities make their voices heard on these proposals and respond to the formal consultation processes and play an active part in the project boards when these are established.
At the City Development Committee my colleague Councillor Laurie Bidwell had done the council a service by noticing that work was about to start on a contract at Douglas Terrace Walkway which had not been properly authorised. Some councillors thought that this was unimportant but this gets to the heart of what the council is for and the role of councillors in overseeing the work of officers. I am sure that it was an oversight but we nearly had the situation where a contract worth £723,579 was started without any authorisation to spend the money. Who would have paid if this had not been rectified? I will be writing to the Chief Executive to make sure that processes are in place to prevent such a thing happening again.
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