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Council considering 4pc tax rise
Tuesday 5th January 2010, 10:09AM GMT.
Council tax in Powys could go up by as much as 4.25 per cent amid a warning over huge financial pressures for the area’s county council.
Powys County Council’s board was due to meet today in Llandrindod Wells to discuss the increase and members have been asked to support the 4.25 per cent council tax rise for the next financial year.
The increase, if agreed, would mean that council tax for a band D property will go up from £852.92 to £889.17, a rise of £36.25.
If today’s meeting agrees to the increase, the budget for 2010/11 would be recommended to the full council. The police and town and community council precepts would then be added to the county council precept to calculate the overall council tax bill Powys residents will have to pay.
In a report to today’s meeting, Councillor Gwilym Vaughan, portfolio holder for finance, warns of stiff financial challenges for the council for the next three years.
He warned that the council’s medium term financial plan indicated a £23 million deficit by March 2014 unless remedial action was taken. He said: “There is a specific concern over the deteriorating financial position of secondary schools.”
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Paying now for the profligacy of yesterday.
And I’m afraid that your pals at Labour HQ won’t be able to fund you again this year; there’s a general election due to happen, don’t you know.
Plenty of “non-jobs” (as well as many self-indulgent ones) that you could cut back on though. That might save you a lot of money.
Or you could ask pensioners to send you money again, to pay for basics like street lighting.
Joke council.
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