DALMUIR golf club, cemetery maintenance, fireworks displays and school clothing grant top-ups all face being axed as the council reveals £13 million in proposed budget cuts.

Documents released on Friday revealed an array of potential cuts to services across Clydebank which councillors will debate at a full council meeting on December 20.

Dalmuir’s golf course could be closed completely to save £200,000 or reduced to nine holes or see an increase in membership charges up to £364 from £280. The Golf Pro Am tournament would also end.

The school clothing grant budget – frequently praised by the council as being the highest in Scotland – could be cut by half from £100 to £50 per child, while almost £700,000 from the school budget could be slashed.

Street cleaning could be reduced while festive lighting would also be scaled back.

The care of gardens scheme, recently reduced for pensioners, could be axed completely to save £375,000, states the council document.

The proposals also contain plans to end funding for free swimming lessons, swap hot school meals with a sandwich on Fridays and ready-meals would replace freshly prepared ingredients in school canteens.

School crossing patrols could also take a hit with 40 jobs set to be lost should the council switch to a volunteer operation.

Council tax rises will increase by up to three per cent but it was not immediately clear how the Scottish Government's budget announcements today will affect local cuts.

Opposition members also leaked a so-called “secret document” revealed only to senior politicians containing a further £1.2m in cuts to jobs which they say would scrap free school milk at lunchtime for primary school pupils and force secondary school pupils to clean their own classrooms.

The document has resulted in opposition members blasting the SNP for using “smoke and mirrors” to hide the true scale of cuts.

The SNP administration blamed Labour and the Tories for cuts at Westminster that have reduced funding to the Scottish Government and then councils.

Labour councillor Lawrence O’Neill told the Post when they were in power, there were proposals they told council managers not to consider.

He said: “There were always red lines. The golf course was an option before. The Pro Am is a huge event and a well respected tournament on the pro-circuit.

“And I find it strange that education options are there when we are trying to get kids in school and help with their learning, their health. All these things make an absolute impact on that.”

On the school uniform grant, he added: “We didn’t increase the top-up grant to make ourselves look brilliant. Yes, it’s higher than the average but hundreds of parents need it.

He added: “Council leader Jonathan McColl should go to [finance secretary] Derek Mackay and say, ‘we took this council from Labour, what can you give us as a sweetener?’”

Cllr O’Neill added they would put forward an alternative budget to the SNP and hoped it would be more “palatable”.

Leader of the opposition, Cllr Martin Rooney, added: “Low-income families and low-paid council staff will be the biggest losers under the proposals to scrap Labour’s clothing grant top-up and lose dozens of jobs from school janitors and catering staff.”

Cllr McColl told the Post the budget gap is Labour’s fault and he also awaited the funding announcement from the Scottish Government on Thursday to help inform their planned budget.

He said they were at the point when the “fat” had been trimmed from the council and there were few options left that didn’t affect services.

Cllr McColl said: “We have been assured that any impact on service levels as a result of these changes would be absolutely minimal.

“The budget situation that we are looking at is terrible and the cuts facing local people are not good.

“Our only hope is that the Scottish Government can find some way of squaring the round hole given to them by Westminster.”

Some of the area’s much loved events such as the Scottish Pipe Band Championships, the Loch Lomond Highland Games, Bonfire night displays and Christmas switch-on events could be scrapped to save £150,000 a year from 2019/20.

Old Kilpatrick’s recycling centre would also be removed, with services being centralised to Alexandria, and all festive lighting would cease. Christmas trees would also be reduced to one location in Dumbarton, Alexandria and Clydebank.

Cemetery maintenance would be scaled back to fortnightly grass cuttings and weed killer placed around headstones instead of weed removal, resulting in a “small impact on the appearance” of the area.

A consultation on the budget plan will start in January before the budget is agreed on February 21.