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AndrewDBurns

  1. 1st COSLA Meeting today as a 'Council Leader'; mainly un-contentious agenda, with all eyes now on the main Convention Meeting on 29th June.
  2. @EdinburghMailin @ForthEdinLabour @cllrcammyday Thanks for the #ff :-)
  3. @randmhousekpr Lily, I "think" that will be done at their first meeting? Please do e-mail if you want me to double-check that out formally??
  4. @edinburghvan Full text of that commitment here: edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downl… - at paragraph 6.4.
  5. Full Council Meeting now finished - appointments ratified and/or voted on: edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/8… & change is in the air: edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/8…
  6. @rayboyle28 Many thanks Ray.
  7. @jim_ashe Many thanks Jim.
  8. Full Council Meeting starts at 10am; all Committee Appointments etc. to be confirmed today, see: edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeti… & andrewburns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/labour…
  9. Busy day:included our 1st Ministerial visit post-election: with @JohnSwinney making Edinburgh Council his 1st-stop on 'Council Leader tour'!
  10. @dhothersall @KarenKeil1 The mind boggles!
  11. @redhotraggle Ha! Still to get my phone properly upgraded though Gareth ... but I think resistance is now futile :-(
  12. @JohnSwinney We really appreciated the early visit - sure it will be first of many over the coming 5-years.
  13. @EuanMc @edinburgh_cc Of course!
  14. @russellf127 @SarahBoyackMSP errr ... didn't use that exact language Frank: but they know what they have to deliver: edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downl…