Irvin Clifford says

If you didn't have the over inflated nonsensical salaries these people in the executive positions receive or the horrendous over charging between council departments as they pass the money around as well as the joke that is the budgets they endorse for every little job they do, as well as the truly shocking wastage built into every council system and the fact of the matter is as a business most councils are effectively bankrupt as they are run as huge loss making entities that know the government of the day will "hopefully" bail them out of the messes of their own makings, if everyone who has a business ran it like the councils run their businesses none of us would last long, and surprise surprise the councils are now finding that out the hard way ,and yeah it will get bad, but who is to blame, the councils themselves for being such great monolithic tributes to bad business practices and shoddy accountancy practices, but as usual we will be expected to bail them out...

Irvin Clifford says

Oh and this is a North Ayrshire site......

dan theman says

Seems to be £30million cuts over 3 years. Job cuts fear at council as new chief executive demands £30m savings - GERRY BRAIDEN June 26 2009

Concerns are growing that a Scots council could be poised for a round of redundancies after its incoming chief executive warned of "unprecedented financial pressure" that meant the authority could "rule nothing out".

Elma Murray, who is not due to take on the £126,597-a-year North Ayrshire Council chief executive post until August but has already taken on some responsibilities, told staff that £30m will have to be cut from its budgets over the next three years.

Although Ms Murray, the former head of organisational change and human resources at Glasgow City Council, has not said how the savings would be made, union leaders said they had been told by council bosses that most of the authority's spend is on staffing while council insiders said it was a case of "watch this space".

In a paper before its executive this week, Ms Murray said that while the Scottish Government had been unable to confirm the level of support for 2010/11, it was anticipated that there would be a £500m cut, with at least the same amount again the next year.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news

Irvin Clifford says

If NAC got rid of the so called executive staff on their grossly inflated salaries they would at least save a number of jobs within the council departments, but as usual, that won't happen will it, you ain't gonna see that trough being bare of pig snouts are you????