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| Council leader not standing down | |
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| Aberdeen City Council's leader refused a call to consider her position as recommendations on how to try to save almost £50m were accepted. | |
| Plans include a recruitment freeze and halting major capital projects. | |
| Councillor Willie Young called on Kate Dean to consider her position, on the grounds the council leadership was the "catalyst" for the city's problems. | |
| She said she had been elected to do a job and, although it would have been easier, she saw no reason to step down. | |
| It had been widely known that £27m of cutbacks were required, but a report by the council's chief accountant showed the forecast had risen to almost double that figure. | |
| A meeting of the local authority's urgent business committee on Friday was assessing the options for clawing back the millions of pounds. | |
| BBC Scotland revealed earlier this week the council faced making the cuts of £49.7m. | |
| The council leader had said the figures had not been kept hidden. | |
| A critical report from the Accounts Commission earlier this year said that Aberdeen City Council faced "extremely serious" challenges. |