Cost-cutting measures

Management efficiences of £1,500,000 are among the options being considered by Clackmannanshire Council officials including deleting vacant posts, reducing staff travel and decreasing repairs budgets.

An increase of one per cent in the council tax could generate £200,000 and a sale of land and buildings another £1million.

Among others options being considered are the withdrawal of music tuition to save £196,000; review of primary pupil/teacher ratios £586,000; reduction of secondary school subject choices £352,080; reducing the number of learning assistants by a fifth £439,000.

One suggestion is to provide school transport only to statutory levels (those living three miles or more from their school).

This would affect pupils living in Menstrie, Tillicoultry and Sauchie who attend Alva and Lornshill Academies, and some pupils travelling to St Modan’s.

Others include: stopping non-school curriculum related sports services £220,000; reduction in the number of children placed in residential schools outwith Clackmannanshire £450,000; stop funding third sector organisations Cafe Society £20,000, Clackmannanshire Healthier Lives £167,000, Sauchie Active8 £32,000; redesign of Women’s Crisis Services £20,000; Closing community access points in Sauchie, Alva, Clackmannan, Menstrie, Tullibody and Dollar £134,000; stop running community centres and halls and make them available for community ownership - Sauchie Hall, Cochrane Hall, Bowmar Centre, Dumyat Centre, Dollar Civic Centre, Tullibody Civic Centre - £365,000.

Closure of public toilets inTillicoultry,Tullibody, West End Park and Johnstone Park is also being considered to save £75,000; stop kerbside box collection and provide a weekly food waste collection £159.000; stop garden waste collection £130,000.