Have your say on council plans for spending, efficiency and council tax
The headlines from the proposals are:
- spend £212 million on everyday services like waste and recycling, libraries, leisure and public transport
- invest £142 million in building and infrastructure like road maintenance, new school places and school maintenance, new care homes and new integrated health and care hubs
- find £13.6million of additional efficiencies
But we continue to face big increases in demands, particularly in Adult Social Care so to help bridge the gap between what we need and what we anticipate in terms of income, we propose to:
- apply the Adult Social Care Precept of a 2% increase on council tax to contribute towards funding care services, and
- increase council tax by 1.95% for fund other services.
Together these work out to be £1.14 increase in council tax per week for an average (Band D) household.
Read a summary, view the full budget and have your say online by 5pm on 30 January 2020.
https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/info/80/council_tax/696/budget_2020