As reported in today's Courier, I was pleased to receive an assurance last night from the City Council's Chief Executive that the Council's Convener of Policy & Resources had now agreed that the Dundee Employment and Aftercare Project would be allowed to speak to councillors on Monday (see earlier article at http://tiny.cc/deap). The council's 'raid' on Fairer Scotland Funding - funding aimed at assisting those in Dundee on the lowest incomes - is to be regretted and DEAP and the other projects that have been told their funding has been removed, are rightly perplexed at the decision to take vital funding away.On another matter, we had an excellent initial meeting of the West End Transition Towns group (for want of a better name!) at Dundee West Church today (see earlier article at http://tiny.cc/transitiontowns). After a good lunch at the healthy eating lunches, there was a really positive discussion about how to take forward the Transition Towns concept across the West End - including food production, selling food, home insulation, public transport - to name just a few areas of discussion. I am very keen that there is an awareness public meeting soon and pleased all support this. A blog and further information to follow ...