Share your views on the Council-wide proposals
The ‘Unprecedented Times’ budget consultation has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part. Your feedback will make a difference by helping to shape the Council budget. We are currently analysing all the feedback received and the final consultation report will be made available here in early 2021 after it has been presented to Cabinet. |
Council-wide services include areas such as human resources, finance, ICT, legal, transformation and data gathering, and engaging with residents.
A key priority in this area is to enable an efficient and empowering council, particularly as we move forward from COVID-19.
We have developed a number of proposals to balance the budget and ensure there is enough money to tackle these priorities.
We want to hear:
- Your views on the budget proposals
- Ideas for further savings that could be made.
To find out more please watch our animation or read about the detailed council-wide proposals here.
Share your views:
There are lots of ways you can get involved, just click on one of the tabs below.
An easy read survey will be available shortly.
This consultation will be open until 3 December 2020.
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We may be in a position where further savings need to be made if funding from Central Government is less than anticipated. This will require more difficult decisions but potential areas we could look at include:
- reducing service standards, for example in highways and street cleaning
- changing our Council tax reduction scheme which provides relief for people on low incomes with Council tax bills
- increasing fees and charges above inflation
- further reductions in buildings owned by the Council, to reduce costs but also to secure investment from the sale of property
- further use of technology to deliver services.
Do you have any other ideas that could be explored if further savings are required?
Please do not share any personal information about yourself or anybody else here. For example only use first names, not full names.
View All Ideasabout 2 months ago
Fund Generation from New Build
There has been over the last 5-8 years significant new house building developments across the CWAC region. Currently there are many new developments in progress and I expect many in application. Most of these will have been "passed or signed off" on the amount of Section 106 monies agreed. These monies are allocated to assist with the local infrastructure /costs / Roads / Healthcare / Education etc etc How much is there currently in the "pot" and how much is projected for the current/future applications? This is I suggest a "contingency fund that should be considered
about 2 months ago
Assessment of Costs - Internal / External
All services whether internal of External (Contract) must be scrutinised for "enhanced" costs:- Labour costs, supportive costs to deliver the service, profit margins from contract, to establish that there is zero abuse of charges and that real and visible Value for Money is being deliverd to CWAC
3 months ago
Introduce a lane rental charges for roadworks instead of the standard fees
This would help to generate more revenue for the council and it encourages companies to work in collaboration thus reducing the amount of road works going on and the impact it causes on local highways.
about 2 months ago
Procurement and Contracts
Full review of all spends again to ensure best value v specification. Thorough review of all 3rd Party contracts . Reduce contract duration without jeopardising competitive prices Apply healthy PENALTIES for works not completed within agreed / negotiated timescales
3 months ago
Review the Park and Ride
A review should be undertaken since some times of the day (even pre covid) the services are extremely quiet. It's therefore a good idea to look at reducing the frequency from every 12 to every 15 minutes at these times. This would save a significant amount of money and as it would be done at little used times, it should have no impact on the users.
Further information
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Unprecedented Times full document (PDF version) (1.01 MB) (pdf)
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Unprecedented Times easy read survey (PDF format) (7.77 MB) (pdf)
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Council-wide detailed proposals (accessible format)
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Glossary of terms used in the budget proposals (accessible format)
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Unprecedented times - foreword and financial context (accessible format)
