Christine Brown is coping with the tragic death of Garrison Brown in her own way.
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The decision to bring in a £50 charge for garden waste collection has been described as 'a disgrace' by a Labour councillor.
Former depute council leader Brian McGinleywas scathing about the Conservative budget plans, describing the introduction of a £50 charge for garden waste as ‘a disgrace’ and dismissing a range of proposals for a lack of detail.
He said: “There doesn’t appear in the capital investment programme of the Conservatives and Independent members and there doesn’t seem to be a clear rationale for the kinds of things that are being proposed.
“I don’t see the narrative, I don’t see the value and I don’t see the ambition going forward.”
"The brown bins are counter intuitive. It wont work and you will end up coming back, having to fund some solutions because people are not recycling their garden waste any more.
“We might end up needing to supply them with wheelbarrows to take [garden waste] up to the recycling centre. It really is a disgrace. To introduce a system that wasn’t there before, a free system and then charge for it is reprehensible.”
He added that the administration budget would “drag us into a big black hole of inertia and bad ideas.”
He also claimed that the council was ‘bloating’ by recruiting management and ICT staff.
Cllr McGinley continued: “There are no frontline staff, this is about management, sucking up and feeding ourselves, with health and safety, finance management.
“These are insatiable facilities so if you just keep throwing money into ICT it just keeps eating it up."
Conservative Councillor Bob Pollock claimed that the opposition party was being contradictory, having ended up supporting the SNP budget proposals last year, including the introduction of a £45 waste charge.
Labour group leader
Christine Brown is coping with the tragic death of Garrison Brown in her own way.
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Janelle Brown is thankful for all the memories with her son Garrison Brown.
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