No payments for directorships on Culture and Leisure Board

At the Policy and Resources Committee on Monday evening the Administration brought froward more details of their plans for a mega-trust for Culture and Leisure services in Dundee. I was pleased that the Administration eventually accepted Labour's proposals that councillors should not be able to sneak extra payments for themselves for the doing the job which they were elected to do, and for which they are already paid. The proposal that their should be trading company as well as a charitable company could have led to councillors receiving extra payments.

I thought that it was wrong that there was a possibility that councillors could have awarded themselves extra payments for serving on the board of this organisation. We should not be in a situation where we are awarding ourselves extra money. This is particularly true at this time when council employees are feeling the pinch. I am pleased that the council accepted the proposal which were put forward by Councillor Keenan and myself it was the common sense decision, it was the right decision.


With the new trust the devil still remains in the detail and I will be keeping a close eye on this as the proposals move forward.