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Our budget will provide £90k towards the upcoming Rutherglen 900 Celebrations.
This will enable the council, working with the Rutherglen 900 Committee, to ensure Ruglonians can both celebrate the rich 900-year history of their town and enjoy the lasting legacy of such a high-profile event.
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The associated responsibilities for a community organisation that come with managing and maintaining a facility can be overwhelming.
To help ensure success, we propose
£0.2m funding to employ two dedicated post-CAT Support Officers, to provide ongoing support as required.
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Our budget includes a £500k investment to develop a culture strategy working closely with communities and stakeholders to ensure all voices are heard and recognised.
The strategy would include a plan for transforming and enhancing the role of our libraries in each community.
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Our budget includes a £2.285m investment in Social Care.
£2m will go towards increasing capacity thus easing pressure on our NHS.
£285k will enable extensive community engagement towards ideas for a hub and spoke model for formal and informal care in Clydesdale.
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We recognise that potholes are a persistent concern of South Lanarkshire residents.
Our budget will therefore establish a £2m ‘Pothole Pot’ to invest in fixing our roads including new pothole repair technologies.
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Our budget includes an investment of £2.850m for the improvement of our pavements, paths and parks.
This will be subject to an online Participatory Budgeting exercise, enabling communities to prioritise where the additional expenditure in their area is targeted.
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Our budget also includes funding towards community engagement for plans regarding a new leisure centre for Blantyre and a refurbishment of the John Wright Sports Centre in East Kilbride.
It also requests an assessment of the condition of Hamilton Water Palace
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It is vital that Larkhall receives a replacement leisure centre that is fit for the future and meets the needs of the community and surrounding areas.
Our budget therefore proposes an additional £4m towards the project, bringing the total project budget to £27.9m.
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We believe in supporting our vital third sector organisations and that’s why our budget proposals include the reinstatement of previous funding for some key local organisations such as local Citizens Advice Bureaus and an additional 6% uplift.
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Our budget includes a Galas and Festivals Fund of over £300k to support our communities in organising galas, festivals and other community events.
This fund provides an opportunity to recognise the importance of these events and ensures a more equitable funding model for our diverse communities.
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As well as being forced to raise Council Tax due to Labour’s tax on jobs our budget will provide SLLC with £650k to offset the rise in Employers’ National Insurance Contributions.
This will minimise the impact on SLLC facility and sports pricing.
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Our budget includes over £2m to help drive down homelessness in South Lanarkshire.
🏡 £1.9m Rapid Rehousing Accelerator Fund in addition to Scottish Government funding for Rapid Rehousing Transition.
🧑💼£180k to recruit 3 additional Homelessness Support Officers.
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Our budget rejects any cuts to education and instead proposes a £2m Enhancing Education fund to:
📚 Increase devolved school budgets by 10.3%
🥣 Invest £625k in healthy and high quality school meals and to counter rising costs
✏️ Invest £1m in Community Learning and Development
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The £2.35m Place and Planet fund will also:
🪴 Reverse Labour’s policy of charging £45 for garden waste uplifts
♻️ Reintroduce one free bulk uplift per year for every household
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Our budget includes a £2.35m Place and Planet Fund to do the following:
🌎 Invest an extra £1m to tackle climate change and nature loss
🗑️ Invest an extra £500k in litter picking, bin emptying and mechanical sweeping to focus on cleaning up our town centres.
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A balanced budget with no Council Tax increase may have been feasible.
Unfortunately, as a result of increased Employers’ National Insurance Contributions in the recent UK Labour Government budget we have proposed a 4.75% rise to cover this.
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Our budget will include proposals to:
🪴 Reverse Labour’s policy of charging £45 for garden waste uplifts
♻️ Reintroduce one free bulk uplift per year for every household
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Once options are explored, we may be able to sanction licenses for other age-restricted goods/services for vape sales offences – e.g. alcohol, piercing, tattooing, fireworks, gaming, knife dealers, sunbeds, etc.
Congrats to Cllr Frame and Cllr @cal.scot for successfully bringing this motion.
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Congratulations to Cllr Calikes and Cllr @andreacowansnp.bsky.social for successfully bringing this motion.
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👥 Millions of women and girls suffer physical or sexual violence every day.
✍️ Our motion supports 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and organisations like Rape Crisis Lanarkshire.
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⚽️ Hamilton Accies are one of the oldest senior football clubs in Scotland and are an asset to the local community.
✍️ Our motion recognises this contribution and congratulations them on their 150th anniversary.
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💜 1950s women have suffered an injustice at the hands of successive UK Governments, with over 14,000 being affected in South Lanarkshire.
✍️ Our motion calls upon the new UK Government to swiftly ensure fair compensation for these women.
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🗣️ The death toll in Gaza is now over 40k.
✍️ Our motion calls upon the UK Government to immediately cease approval of all licenses for the export of weapons and weapon parts to Israel.
It also asks the UK Government to publish the legal advice on this matter.
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🚯 We recognise litter is a problem for people throughout South Lanarkshire and that current arrangements for commercial waste uplift aren’t good enough.
✍️ Our motion will require officers to explore options for a new system to help fix the problem.
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✅ We welcome the potential of a complete ban on disposable vapes but we propose to do more on a local level.
✍️ Our motion will encourage trading standards and the licensing team to take action against premises which are found to have sold nicotine products to children.
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We will continue to scrutinise the work of the Labour administration, for the benefit of all of our communities in South Lanarkshire.