Budget Consultation 2008/09
Your money, your choice
Each year the city council plans its spending for the following year.
During this years consultation residents let us have their views by :
- email: budgetconsultation@salford.gov.uk
- writing to: Budget Consultation, FREEPOST-RLUE-CELG-RHST, Unity House, Salford Civic Centre, M27 5FJ
- telephoning: 0161 793 3057
Consultation was also carried out with
- Big Listening
- Young people
- Older persons forum
A public meeting was held on the 15 January 2008 to discuss the council's budget for 2008/09 and for members of the public to give their views on what the council's spending priorities should be for the next year. At the meeting a wide range of issues were raised and put to a panel of councillors representing the three political parties. The issues raised included:
- Building on the improvement in educational results
- Community Committees – lack of communication with residents
- s106 – how much has been received, spent, unused
- Contribution to the Lowry
- Investment in parks and green spaces
- Investment in improving roads and pavements
- High ratio of staff to the population
- Level of expenditure on marketing
- Level of increase in councillors allowances
- Level of employee sickness
- Impact of equal pay settlements
- Contribution to the BBC Philharmonic
- Climate change
- Bus services
- Population increase
- Potential to use council reserves to balance the budget
- Provision for inflation included in the budget
A report on the issues raised at the public meeting was considered at the Budget Scrutiny Committee meeting on 31 January 2008 and an overall summary of the consultation results were included in the budget report to Cabinet and the Council in February 2008.
This page was last updated on 23 July 2008
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