Council meeting will begin in just over an hour where we will vote to set council tax for the next year.
Cheshire East has worked hard to provide a 0% increase for the ward this year.
However, the police authority decided this morning to increase what we pay them by 3.65%. Therefore we will all see our bills go up.
They had previously promised no more than 3%.
I suppose it's better than the 17% last year. But still, it's not really on, is it?
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
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So the effect is an increase in costs for Cheshire East of 0.65% above that planned, which doesn't seem too disastrous?
And while we all want to control costs, some of us are realistic enough to know that if we want to see services maintained and/or improved we need to pay for them. Take the litter situation and the state of street cleaning - a basic Council function and one that is clearly not being done adequately at present. It is difficult to see how this can be solved without more bodies to pick the stuff up and hence more cash?
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