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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Kaiya Marjoribanks

Budget cuts on horizon as painful decisions threatened in effort to close £17 million funding gap

Stirling Council is suggesting raising council tax by seven per cent, cutting school crossing patrols and closing buildings as part of plans to plug a £17million funding gap.

Council leader, Labour councillor Chris Kane, who leads the minority administration, described the process of drafting the budget as “emotionally and politically challenging”.

And he warned that the financial crisis facing local government is “of a magnitude never been experienced before”.

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