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Fellow councillors-turned-MSPs, the SNP’s Jackie Dunbar and Audrey Nicoll, are understood to be doing the same.
Shift in power sharing arrangement
Aberdeen Labour leader Mrs Laing has already served as council leader during the previous council session – when her group was the largest within the ruling coalition.
She replaced now Lord Provost Barney Crockett as leader in 2014, remaining in place until after the 2017 election while the legal practicalities of installing co-leaders were ironed out.
Mrs Laing said she was “delighted” with the unanimous agreement to the new allocation of the top positions and said she would focus on Aberdeen’s “social and economic recovery” from Covid-19.
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The budget was passed in favour of the administration.
Music services protected – but Dyce library to be relocated and some vacant posts removed.
Dyce Library is to be relocated under the budget.
In its budget, the administration rejected changes to the music service, and has instructed the chief education officer to conduct a report on how it could use digitalisation to offer a more affordable service to families, extending its reach.
It has also included a £100,000 spend on working with partners and community groups on eradicating food poverty across the city.
A further £90,000 to develop a targeted learning package for those whose employment opportunities have been hardest hit by Covid-19.