GWYNEDD Council is on track to deliver savings of almost £7,500,000 it had set itself over the last financial year.

As of 31 March, £5.9m of the £7.4m of earmarked cuts had already been achieved – a situation the authority’s finance portfolio holder said that he was “very satisfied” with.

Cllr Peredur Jenkins said: “Of the 122 projects, 108 have already been achieved but there’s been slippage in the others,” he said during a meeting of the authority’s cabinet in Caernarfon on Tuesday afternoon.

“It goes to show the hard work that’s going on in departments across the council and this is bearing fruit in terms of the savings we have to make.”

Mr Jenkins’ report, noted: “Whilst some departments have realised all of their savings schemes, it is inevitable that realising some of the schemes within the original timescale has been challenging, in particular some of the larger schemes within the Children and Adults Departments.

“More time is required to plan and implement appropriately with some schemes, and the Cabinet in various meetings has approved amendments and reprofiling schemes in some fields, that has resulted in extending the realisation timetable.”

Concluding the agenda item, council leader Dyfrig Siencyn, said: “The truth is that this is a very satisfactory outcome, showing that financial management across the services is excellent."

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