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Originally Posted by jaysay
Yes Graham and they also scrapped the Works department in 2002 which was a profit making department keeping money within the council and bringing in money from outside contracts, a fact that was never taken into consideration when setting the budget, meaning they had to find around a extra £700,000 just to stand still, plus using rebates that they weren't entitled to, to the tune of £560,000, its hardley any surprise they left a huge budget deficit, which has now been addessed and the council finances are back on track, and back in the black
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You have had the 1999 figures. If you work out the budgets had we been ratecapped, the Council's budget would now be around £12m approx. It is in fact now £15m because of above inflation increases.
That's a £3m deficit on current spending. I say that as a reminder of the Tory years in Government and the circumstances in which Labour Councillors had to run the Council.