Council sets budget
Warwickshire County Council yesterday (Tuesday 5 February) voted in its 2008/2009 budget.
Funding this will mean a 3.9% increase on last year’s Council Tax, this is lower than the 4.91 per cent increase on the previous year.
The council meeting started at 10am and after more than 7 hours of debating and negotiation the budget was agreed.
This means a 78p per week increase in Band D of the Council Tax from £1045.21 to £1,085.98.
The increase of 3.9 per cent has been agreed to maintain standards within all the key service areas. Some of our services include:
- 249 schools with 11,000 teachers and support staff and more than 76,000 pupils.
- We maintain 2,300 miles or road and eight country parks which attracted 647,000 visitors last year.
- We have 19 fire stations that have around 10,000 call outs a year.
- More than three million books, tapes and CDS are issued each year from our libraries and over 85,000 people visited our museums.
- We support about 2,000 people in residential or nursing care and provide about 20,000 hours of home care in the community each week.