Protesters are stepping up their campaign to stop 3m worth of council cuts.
City councillors have run out of savings and have drawn up a list of possible cuts from the budget for 2001 to 2002.
Measures could include transferring council work and jobs to the private sector, increases in park and ride charges and concessionary fares, reducing the number of parking spaces and cutting spending on community centres. Staff could face the axe across all city departments. The proposals will be discussed at a meeting of the strategy and resources meeting on Tuesday (Nov 21) and at full council on November 27.
Yesterday (FRI) and today (SAT) supporters of Scrap, the campaign to stop cuts and privatisation, gathered names in Cornmarket for a petition.
Former Labour council leader John Tanner, one of the organisers of Scrap, has been criticised by the Liberal Democrat and Green councillors.
They say his spendthrift administration got them into the financial mess, which he denies.
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