Yesterday was very busy with Council meetings, including weekly meetings with Council Leader and Depute Chief Executive (Finance) & Head of Finance and dealing with lots of constituents' correspondence.
A teatime meeting with the group of volunteers who kindly help organise the West End Christmas Week - it was our initial 2006 meeting and great progress already - the week will run from 2nd December & we hope to have lots of new initiatives this year. The minutes of our meetings will go on the West End Community Council website (www.wecc.org.uk) in due course.
Council Recess over, it was back to committees last night. Two good news stories :-
* Really pleased to see the Draft Site Development Brief for the Tay Hotel building going before Planning & Transportation Committee - I spoke in the debate welcoming the prospect of the building going back into use. Click the headline above for a copy of the P&T committee report.
* At my own committee (Finance) pleased to announce the success of March's benefits take-up city centre campaign - see http://www.dundee.prai.co.uk/news/255.html.
Today, concerned at fact that Scottish Water appears not to have applied for the Traffic Order to enable permanent water hydrant repairs in Step Row (the Planning & Transportation Department tells me) so have been back on to Scottish Water about this. But on a positive note, following my taking up a resident's complaint about dumped plywood and an old bath in Union Place, Waste Management has removed these.