Are you considering standing for election?

"…democratic election gives local councillors, like Members of Parliament, a special status in public life … It is no easy task being a local councillor … Certainly no councillor would seek election in order to get rich… but the ambition to serve on a council remains an honourable calling and should be recognised as such".

Lord Nolan's Report on Standards of Conduct in Local Government.

The Moray Council

If you are elected, you will become one of the 26 Councillors who make up the Moray Council. The Council is responsible for the provision of education, social work, roads, council housing, libraries, waste disposal, consumer protection, strategic planning, economic development and a wide range of other services. To carry out these functions, in 2004/05 the Council employed approximately 4,000 people either full or part-time. The Moray Council is a unitary local authority in the North East of Scotland and its budget for the 2004/05 financial year was £147.2 million.

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