9:09am Thursday 17th December 2009
CITY leaders have started the battle to balance York’s books for next year – and are proposing another above-inflation council tax rise.
Officials at City of York Council say they are budgeting for a 2.9 per cent hike in the authority’s share of the tax next year.
Although higher than the current RPI inflation figure of 1.9 per cent, it is lower than the four per cent rise predicted last February in the council’s medium term financial forecast (MTFF), and council leader Andrew Waller said he would try to drive it down further.
He said: “We will be working with officers over the next two months to put pressure on that figure, because clearly people will be wanting to keep the council tax rise down next year.” He said the council was facing pressures in social care, children’s care and landfill tax.
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