Measures taken to close the budget gap include:

-- Daily parking charges will rise from £1 to £2, raising an estimated £42,000 extra.

-- Free swimming to over-60s will be withdrawn

-- Kerbside glass recycling collection will be withdrawn

-- A £2.50 weekly charge for community alarms in line with other councils.

-- Reduction of £159,000 in annual funding to Riverside Inverclyde and economic regeneration

-- Removal of a number of primary schools from community letting.

-- Increased commercial waste charges.

-- Increased burial and cremation charges.

-- Inverclyde Leisure price increases will be limited to 2.5 per cent.

Funding for a number of initiatives include:

-- A £345,000 fund for hosting a major pipe band championship for three years from 2019.

-- £150,000 grant funding to the owners of Port Glasgow Industrial Estate for demolition of redundant buildings.

-- £100,000 towards bringing Inverclyde Indoor Bowling Club up to a standard to hold national competitions.

-- An extra £150,000 towards an indoor tennis facility in Greenock to be run by Inverclyde Leisure. This brings the council’s contribution to £500,000 out an estimated total of £1.5million for the project.

- £1.3million investment at Boglestone Community Centre, Port Glasgow (£830,000) and Lady Octavia Sports Centre (£470,000). The internal layouts will be changed to create more revenue-generating opportunities such as cafes, soft play and gym equipment.

-- Extend Gourock Pool opening by one month in 2018.

-- Addition of three passing places on the moors side on Kirn Drive, Gourock at a cost of £200,000.

-- £50,000 to enhance Ashton Promenade, Gourock.

-- Develop a masterplan for Gourock Park looking at tennis courts, floodlit mini golf and environmental improvements.

-- An extra £206,000 towards road and footway repair work.

-- A further £200,000 will be invested in services to make Inverclyde a dementia and autism-friendly community.

-- The future of three iYouth Zones will be secured for 2018/19 at a cost of £186,000 while an independent review youth service provision is carried out.

-- An extra £200,000 for the council’s anti-poverty fund bringing the current total to £830,000, to finance a range of initiatives to support individuals and families.

-- A £65,000 investment towards refurbishing Lady Alice Bowling Club.

-- £500,000 for measures to attract people to move to Inverclyde including assistance with re-location costs, council tax and marketing and promotion.

-- £25,000 a year to permanently increase the school clothing grant to £90.