It has been the policy of the Lib Dem controlled City Council to devolve as much decision making as possible to ward councillors. For six years we have had a substantial revenue budget at ward level ( currently £20,000 pa ) and for the last two years we have also been allocated a capital budget ( £115,000 over 3 years ).
Cllr Fraser Macpherson, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Dundee's West End, today (Monday 13th December) launched his December 2010 update to West End Community Council.
The Council has published the list of additional roads which will be resurfaced in this financial year thanks to the £1 million boost we recently put into the road resurfacing budget. This takes the overall investment in highway maintenance this year to around £7 million, and means that within 2 years an additional £4 million pounds has been invested in our roads and pavements over and above the level of spending by the former County Council.
Liberal Democrat councillors have proposed a Motion to the borough council which, if successful, could allow residents to ask questions at "full" council meetings.
Rebecca Tinsley, founder of Waging Peace, which works with survivors of war, genocide and rape in central Africa, spoke to an LIBG forum on the impending referendum that could see southern Sudan secede as a separate country.
Liberal International has awarded its 2010 Prize for Freedom to Dr Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate.