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| Council leader not standing down | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | She said she had been elected to do a job and, although it would have been easier, she saw no reason to step down. |
| The pressure on a personal basis has been getting to me for some time but I believe I am committed to doing this and I want to continue that commitment Kate DeanAberdeen City Council leader | |
| 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. | 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. | BBC Scotland revealed earlier this week the council faced making the cuts of £49.7m. |
| Ms Dean, who is a Lib Dem councillor, said most of the calls for her to step down were coming from the Labour group and trade unions, rather than the majority of the general public. | |
| 'Pretty drastic' | |
| She said: "The pressure on a personal basis has been getting to me for some time but I believe I am committed to doing this and I want to continue that commitment." | |
| Prof Richard Kerley, a local government expert, said he believed the financial situation at Aberdeen was one of the most serious of its kind in the UK. | |
| He said: "There really aren't any examples in Scotland, or England or Wales, where this kind of hit has been coped with without taking pretty drastic action." | |
| A critical report from the Accounts Commission earlier this year said that Aberdeen City Council faced "extremely serious" challenges. | A critical report from the Accounts Commission earlier this year said that Aberdeen City Council faced "extremely serious" challenges. |