Hyndburn council tax freeze ?likely? (From Lancashire Telegraph)
The Council predicts a 750,000 underspend on the current year, which puts it in a good position to face the savage cuts needed to meet government requirements in the next twelve months.
I agree with Councillor Marlene Haworth that the position is due to good financial management, and officers deserve credit for that.
The only problem with "vacancy management", whereby jobs that become vacant are not filled, is that frontline jobs dont get any protection. So a vital bin collection job is left unfilled, while a back room pen pusher is safe as long as he keeps his head down.
....and don't lets be fooled by the Leaders attempts to take any credit for zero council tax increases. That is a government dictat that no self respecting Conservative council will defy, and even if it did it would lose the first two and a half percent increase in reduced grant income.