The current financial pressures facing East Lothian Council pose the highest risk the local authority has ever faced, an emergency meeting heard today.
A £2 million underpayment in funding from Scottish Government to cover a staff pay increase and £1.2million in additional energy costs for council buildings are just a couple of the reasons it now faces an additional £5 million budget gap this year.
In an unusual move the local authority's senior team called a special council meeting of politicians to lay out additional measures needed to try and deal with spiralling costs.
