How do you cut spending by £41m?

YOU generate more income and you make savings on spending. Some of the ideas below are not new, but the council is perhaps a bit more determined to carry them out.

There will be no compulsory redundancies, but 300 council posts might be shed.

Here are the administration’s plans for cutting revenue spending in such a way that the council can live within its means. Remember you can have your say until 11 February on these proposals.

Income Maximisation £2.595m charging full commercial rates for the use of council property, licenses, pre-planning applications, introducing refreshment concessions into parks, increasing advertising revenue, renegotiating rents, generating electricity from solar panels on council buildings, expanding electric vehicle charging network and introducing a default up front payment system to reduce debt recovery.

Workforce Modernisation and Change £2.350m - streamlining staffing structure and redeploying staff as required.

Service Reduction £2.004m - Cuts to spending in Economic Development, Heritage Language, Strategy and Communications and small grants and awards to support citywide sports and learning such as the Talented Athletes scheme. Savings will be made in The Book Fund by reducing subscriptions to newspapers and magazines.

Corporate and Capitalised Budgets £9.500m - savings will be made by looking at the way that some income and expenditure is allocated. Centralising procurement and savings on borrowing by repaying some from available cash. Greater income from council tax than thought due to more new houses being built.

Operational Redesign £0.915m

- selling some of the council assets such as pubs which they own and rent out, rationalising the 19 council depots and moving to contract hire of cars and vans.

Service Reform £4.240m - reallocating teachers and head teachers to primary schools not nurseries. Using Early Years Practitioners to save money. Looking at staffing public toilets part-time and introducing the Community Toilet Scheme (where premises are rewarded for making their toilets available to the public). Looking to eliminate any duplication of services in areas such as public safety. Savings in the health and social care budget awarded to the Integrated Joint Board.

Maintaining Service Investment £1.600m - by removing past year’s one year grant funding from the revenue budget.

Digital Delivery £0.090m - council will improve digital systems with better online self service technology. Reducing the amount spent on print and mail.

Placemaking £1.669m - Expanding parking payment schemes in the city. Examining council locality teams, perhaps by reducing management posts and making changes to deliver some services across the city. Creating a citywide environmental enforcement team.

Arms’ Length Bodies £2.464m funding to culture and leisure, Marketing Edinburgh and EDI as well as Transport for Edinburgh.

Operational Efficiencies £11.966m - looking for more efficient spending of public money by reducing sickness absence and decreasing use of agency staff, more automation of transactions, reviewing contracts, review of senior management structures and rewriting ICT contracts.

Homelessness Investment £0.295m - introduce more revenue officers to increase financial support for those who need temporary accommodation, but by concentrating on council owned property reducing the reliance on B&Bs. Adopting the Scottish Government framework for supply of utilities such as electricity and gas at nationally negotiated rates

Partnership Working £1.062m - reducing spend on Police Scotland, organising waste disposal on joint basis with other local authorities to reduce cost.

Service Design and Assets £0.250m - Council owns 760 buildings in Edinburgh. They will look at a service led approach rather than basing decisions on buildings. Services will be delivered from hubs so reducing running costs. The council will design community services in collaboration with communities themselves.

The council may amalgamate or create new museums and galleries from its Museums and Galleries portfolio (places like the City Art Centre and the Museum of Childhood)