Council agree budget
AFTER a six-hour marathon meeting yesterday elected members of Dumfries and Galloway Council emerged with an agreed budget for the next financial year.
With council tax frozen for the fifth consecutive year saving identified came from reduction in staff due to falling school rolls (324,000); Reducing staff levels in primary school (£253,000); The removal of historic staffing anomalies in secondary schools (86,000); Home care learning disability (£153,000); facilities management (£128,000); wild areas and parks (£40,000); the integration of libraries, customer service centres and registration (£100,000) and from further integrated work with NHS (£464,000).
The following have been funded by the council for 2012/13:
Civic Pride (£700,000); Extra funds for road repairs (£538,000); Community Winter Resilience/ stock salt bins (£75,000); Modern Apprentice Scheme (£1 million); Graduate Employment Scheme (£100,000); Winter routes (£70,000); SWESTRANS retendering and enhanced services (£91,000); Early intervention/Early years (£320,000); Day Services Support (£66,000); High Street Facelift Scheme (£400,000); Increased Clothing Grant from £60 to £80 ((£56,000); Welfare and Benefits Advice (£92,000); Video Conferencing in Schools (£100,000); Kinship Care (£30,000); Policy Support - South of Scotland Alliance (£30,000); Increase in living wage (£20,000); Young Entrepreneur Scheme (£60,000).
The council will receive a grant of just over £315 million from the Scottish Government and will generate an income of over £61 million from council tax collection giving them a spending pot of £377 million.
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Tuesday 22 May 2012
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wonderboyboab@aol.com
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 08:34 PMwhat i would like to ask the council is since we have had such a mild winter why were provisions made of £75,000 for salt????
Scorpio
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 12:19 PMWhats happened to the "now funds" for the roads? £538,000 Extra? Will the council be employing a REAL road maintenance company? The pot holes are a damn disgrace, peoples car's are being damaged. People are swerving on the roads to avoid them and its only a matter of time before a major accident occurs The soft tar that is being used even a 3year old can work it out! GET OUR ROADS SORTED AND PROPERLY!
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