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LAST Thursday a scheduled meeting of Argyll and Bute Council took place.
One item was dropped from the agenda and another declared incompetent by Provost Petrie.
Councillors, already in Kilmory, brought forward meetings from the following day or caught up with office work.
Not a big deal one might have thought – until an item appeared in a Dundee-based Sunday newspaper shouting about an administrative blunder and thousands of pounds being squandered on two night hotel stays.
The Dundee journalist seems to have read a story in an Aberdeen-based daily paper, added two with two and come up with the answer 17.
Recently-elected Oban councillor Louise Glen-Lee (SNP) spoke with a reporter from the Aberdeen – based propecia buying. A short report on the brevity of the meeting appeared on page eight of the paper with Cllr Lee saying: “It seems ludicrous to bring councillors from all over the west coast to a meeting that lasts less than 15 minutes and nods through decisions.
“The cost alone is an insult to taxpayers.”
By the time Sunday came Cllr Glen-Lee was reported as ‘blasting’ about ‘thousands of pounds’. A ‘blast’ she denies having made.
The short meeting was unlikely to have been reported this week had it not been for a letter from deputy council leader, Helensburgh councillor Ellen Morton (LibDem), published in this week's propecia buying.
In it, Cllr Morton accuses opposition councillors of having ‘failed totally to exercise properly their scrutiny role’ by not asking questions of the items that were on the agenda.
“If I were a suspicious, cynical person,” Cllr Morton continues, “I might think that the motions were submitted and then withdrawn, and that no questions were asked to deliberately make the meeting brief, just so that this attack on the council administration could be launched.
“However no responsible group of councillors would dream of wasting taxpayers’ money like this, so that cannot possibly be the reason. Can it?”
Questions to the council were answered, unusually, by a lengthy statement from Council Leader, Dunoon Councillor Dick Walsh (Independent), saying: “…I understand this is another attempt to discredit senior officers and the administration of the council, by placing the responsibility for the situation that has arisen at our door by not understanding the constitutional arrangements of the council or their collective responsibility as part of the arrangements in such circumstances.”
After explaining why the meeting, short though it was, had to go ahead Cllr Walsh went on to say he looked forward to a ’balanced and fair article’.
Cllr Glen-Lee said: “It is a shame that senior councillors can find the time to write about these things at such length when there are other councillors still awaiting answers to serious questions posed a considerable time ago.
“However, if Cllrs Morton and Walsh believe the meeting was a good use of time we will bow to their greater authority.”
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