Gedling's Council Tax (Gedling Liberal Democrats)

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Gedling's Council Tax

May 13, 2008 12:25 AM
By Cllr Tony Gillam

For £160,000 residents will receive six extra bin collections this summer

The ruling Tories on Gedling Council pushed through their budget with a 3% increase in Council Tax. They will keep the extra 6 bin collections in the summer (costing £160,000), scrap the subsidy for police support officers (we lose 6 officers from our streets), saving £132,000 and virtually no money for anything else. They have no ideas and no direction for the council and their priorities are wrong.

The Labour Party wanted to scrap the extra summer bin collections, increase Council Tax by 3.25% and spend the extra money on a lot of small environmental schemes. These were interesting but not properly costed.

The Lib Dems wanted to scrap the extra summer bin collections and to tackle Anti-Social Behaviour either by continuing the subsidy on the police officers or by any other method. We also wanted to scrap the charges for taking away fridges and freezers.

We believe that the Council has lost direction by removing the pressure against Anti-Social Behaviour and deciding against tackling environmental damage and costs.