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Bid over Oswestry council tax fails
Tuesday 17th January 2012, 10:59AM GMT.
Residents in Oswestry will have to pay an extra £1.53 a year for their town council, despite an 11th- hour bid to spare households any increase.
Councillors had asked officers to draw up a budget based on a three per cent rise in council tax. But last night a group of led by Councillor Chris Schofield recommended no increase in the town council’s precept.
Committee chairman Councillor Gareth Jones said a bid for no increase should have been made at previous budget seminars.
But Councillor Schofield said: “We should look at where we can save money. We are looking to increase the funding for Christmas Live from £6,500 to £15,000, there is £8,500 for a start.
“There is money in the budget for a trainee clerk, that money could come out. It is not the money itself, it is a piffling amount of money. It is the principle of having an increase.”
Councillor Martin Bennett proposed the three per cent increase in the budget raising the precept for a band D property from £65.86 to £64.33. The budget was approved.
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