After my surgeries at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre this afternoon, I attended a lengthy series of council meetings tonight at which :
* At the Housing Committee, I queried the credibility of assumed land receipts (£13.4 million between 2012 and 2015) that proposed levels of council rents in the next few years rely upon. In the past year, such receipts have amounted to only £500 000.
* At the same committee, I asked questions about proposals for Amenity Housing and sought assurances for our sheltered housing tenants.
* Again, at Housing Committee, I questioned the rather crude method of sharing out the benefits of the universal home insulation scheme that will see the bulk of the benefit going to Band A houses and made the point that the benefits should benefit households in poverty and those in fuel poverty first.
* At the Policy & Resources Committee, I queried the procurement system used for the purchase of IT equipment (a system now 9 years old) but also praised the huge effort by council IT staff that saw a seemless move of IT services when the new council headquarters at Dundee House opened recently.