1. The purpose of this Technical Note is to provide elected members with information pertaining to the herbicide utilised when treating parks, cemeteries and open spaces. This follows recent enquiries specifically about herbicide application at  Woodhill Park, Bishopbriggs.
    

1. The purpose of this Technical Note is to update Members on the progress of East Dunbartonshire’s Covid Memorial Project.
2. Remembering Together is being delivered by greenspace Scotland at the request of the Scottish Government and involves commissioned artists working with partners, communities, faith groups and those most affected by Covid in all 32 local authority areas to create Covid memorial projects.

1. The purpose of the Technical Note is to provide Members with an update following a question posed at the Policy & Resources Committee held on Thursday 7th September 2023.
2. The question posed pertained to the Policy & Resources Committee papers, Item 6, pages 49 to 63, the General Services Capital Programme Monitoring Report 2023/24 – Period 3 (PR/008/23/AB) and specifically mentions page 57 (Appendix 1 – Expenditure Forecasting) and the line referencing Flood Mitigation.

1. The purpose of this note is to provide Members with the monthly performance and progress reports covering the period August 2023 for all service areas (see Appendix 1)
    

1. The purpose of this Technical Note is to provide an update on forthcoming stakeholder engagement plans to support the on-going feasibility review considering the replacement of Westerton Primary School.
    

The purpose of this technical note is to advise Members on the grant received from the Scottish Government with regard to the Nature Restoration Fund.

The grant for this financial year from the Scottish Government (received in late June 2023) totalled some £266,000 and needs to be committed and spent in the current financial year. 

As per the guidance associated with the fund the high-level expectation is that Local Authorities will begin to develop projects which will contribute to establishing Nature Networks in their area.

1. The Council has received an approach from a local junior football team, Rossvale FC, to host their upcoming Scottish Junior Cup match versus Darvel on the 7th October at the new Kirkintilloch Community Sports Complex (KCSC).  The Club have been struggling to source suitable accommodation to host the tie and have identified the KCSC as the only realistic opportunity in the local area.
    

1. As we mentioned in our previous update in Technical Note 154 on Friday 22 September advising of strike action in relation to an ongoing pay dispute between COSLA and Trade Unions GMB, Unison and Unite, an updated pay award offer was made on Thursday 21 September.
    

2. In response to this offer both GMB and Unite agreed to suspend the strike action planned for Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 September.
    

3. Unison confirmed its members would still be undertaking strike action on these three days.
    

The purpose of this Technical Note is to provide Elected Members with an update on the East Dunbartonshire City Deal Project (the Project) following a request at the Policy & Resources Committee on 7th September 2023.

Project Update

Report PNCA/027/23/DG was approved at Council in June 2023. This provided a range of updates on the Project. Recommendations in the report were approved and these will inform the next report to Council, which is expected to be December 2023.

I would like to advise councillors of my intention to retire from the position of Chief Executive in January 2024, by which time I will have held the position for 15 years.

Whilst I will be sad to leave the organisation, where I have held a number of roles since it was established following local government reorganisation in 1996, the time is right for me to hand over the reigns to a successor for the new changes and challenges ahead.