Mark Bee
Suffolk: Four-year freeze pledge on county’s council tax
Paul Geater
Thursday, February 14, 2013
4:36 PM
THE county’s element of council tax bills will be frozen for four years if the Conservatives are re-elected in May’s elections for Endeavour House.
That was the pledge today from council leader Mark Bee during the county’s debate on the 2013/14 tax rate at Endeavour House.
This is the third year running that the county has frozen its council tax.
Mr Bee made the pledge after the Conservative-dominated authority rejected a Liberal Democrat amendment that would have seen £1.7million transfered from the county’s reserves to boost education and young people’s services in the county.
The entire council is up for re-election in May with the Conservatives defending 55 of the 75 seats up for grabs.
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5 comments
or, as an alternative, put up council tax and improve our services! Those that can't pay generally have benefits anyway and a couple of pounds a week to many of us won't make much of a difference. We get the services we're paying for, and as we're not paying there's no suurprise services are being cut back and vanishing.
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davidbrian56
Friday, February 15, 2013
so cutting the single person allowance is ok then, or making unemployed pay ? turning off street lights. its like buying a bag of sugar at same price but its only 34 full now for same money,,
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beachboy
Friday, February 15, 2013
Well why not nothing has changed over the last four years. Still the dustcart once a week and a solitary street light. Same thing different day.
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Ander P
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Or to put it another way, Council pledges continuing deterioration in public services over the next four years. Unfortunately, I expect the party of self-interest will still be in the majority come May.
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Origami Penguin
Thursday, February 14, 2013
I DON'T THINK THEY GOT ANY ALTERNATIVE , WHICH EVER PARTY GET IN ,, THE WAY LIVING IS GOING NOW EVERYONE WILL BE CLAIMING COUNCIL-TAX BENEFIT SOON ...
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MIGUEL100
Thursday, February 14, 2013