The Accounts Commission is to hold a special public hearing into Aberdeen City Council's ‘precarious' financial position. Aberdeen plans to make a £27m package of spending cuts over the new financial year, and is attempting to organise its own series of local meetings with groups which may be affected. No date has been fixed for the hearing, which will be only the third to be held in Scotland, but the Accounts Commission has said: ‘The council's financial position is precarious and it faces significant financial pressures. Its capacity to deliver the financial savings needed to restore balances is uncertain, given its failure to make planned in-year savings during 2006/07 and 2007/08.'