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ARGYLL AND BUTE COUNCIL SERVICE REVIEW - PREFERRED OPTIONS FOR BUDGET REDUCTIONS
The figures are the total savings expected in each service area
 

Children's Services
Reorganisation of Fusions/GIRFEC £268,807
Restructuring of children's units £387,587
Reorganisation and restructuring of grant processes £90,534


School and Public Transport
 Reduction to local transport and community grants, whilst retaining and element of both £526,440
Review of procurement process £819,820

Regulatory Services
 Reducing scope for duplication in debt counselling £32,537
Improving levels of cost recovery within Regulatory Services £3,000

Roads Operations
Reduced level of maintenance service and associated reduction in operational staff £500,000
Discontinue winter street lighting scouting £5,000

Economic Development
 Reduction of funding to third parties including Visit Scotland £118,500

Leisure
Transfer halls to community trusts £122,492
Closure of Cardross Library £19,194
Closure of Rosneath Library £12,815
Closure of Tarbert Library £11,320
Non-provision of Lorn Mobile Library £32,826
Reduction of grants to community swimming pools £15,000

Catering, Cleaning and Janitorial
Combine and centralise usage of schools during holiday periods £0
Withdraw from provision of steward and cleaning services to community centres £194,000
Reduce the specification of cleaning service in schools to produce a 20% reduction in staff hours £155,150
Reduce the specification of cleaning service in offices to produce a 20% reduction in staff hours £77,661
Reduce the food cost of the primary meal £16,767
Remove the free fruit offered to Primary 1 and 2 pupils (Fruit will continue to be offered at lunch time as part of the school meal provision) £49,000
Increase price of primary school meal by 15p per day £23,136
Increase price of secondary school meal by 15p per day £17,814

Waste Management
Either residual waste transfer from islands (Islay and Mull) for treatment/disposal, or a pre-treatment process on the islands to recover recyclate and reduce the mass of waste sent to landfill £0
Improve recycling performance and productivity from 3rd sector community recycling partners. £21,037
Introduction of alternate weekly comingled waste collection to all households in the PPP area to target paper, card, dense plastics and metals on an "Opt Out" basis. Residual waste will move to alternate weekly to accommodate the commingled collection. £611,373
Separate collection of commercial waste in the PPP area. £0
Procurement of new contract for treatment / disposal of residual waste in Helensburgh and Lomond by 2012. £86,112
Potential introduction of segregated food waste collections in the islands and PPP area and separate collections of glass in the PPP area. £0

Total £4,217,922