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Monday's Dunedin City Council meeting will start and adjourn earlier to accommodate the funeral of Dunedin philanthropist and businessman Les Cleveland.

The Dunedin City Council has agreed to contribute financially to what they acknowledge is an imperfect plan to stop erosion at Te Rauone beach on the Otago Peninsula, saying it is the best anyone has come up with in 40 years, and a good deal for the council.

The amount of fluoride being added to Dunedin's drinking water is to be reduced within days, after city councillors opted to play it safe despite lingering doubts over the science behind the debate.

Plans to plug a missing link in Dunedin's harbourside cycleway near Forsyth Barr Stadium risk creating a ''grand prix'' racing circuit complete with hairpin corners, city councillors fear.

The people had a small victory yesterday after Dunedin city council staff first rejected a proposal to stop accepting individual rubbish bag charges at city landfills, and then backed down on a subsequent proposal to reinstate single bag fees, but at an increased cost.

Dunedin city councillors will today have to decide how best to use nearly $1 million ''windfall'' in savings that could trim the coming year's rates increase to 3.2%.

Dunedin City Council funding for the Dunedin Gasworks Museum is ''chewing gum to stick the thing together'', and more than $2.5 million could be needed to save the buildings, the council's city property manager says.

Plans for a South Dunedin library may be accelerated after city councillors pushed for faster progress yesterday.

Sycamore trees are in the crosshairs of Dunedin city councillors, who have asked council staff to identify the implications of registering them as a noxious plant.

It seems the residents of Gladstone Rd South will have to put up with a dusty, unsealed road for some years yet.