The leader of West Dunbartonshire Council has written to MSPs demanding more cash for the local authority, as he branded the funding package from Holyrood ‘scandalous’.
In his letter, Labour’s Martin Rooney says that the package represents a cut of £272,000 from WDC’s core budget – with the local authority already facing its biggest ever budget gap, more than £20m.
The Lomond member highlighted West Dunbartonshire’s high level of deprivation and warned that council staff are struggling to find options to close the budget gap.
