Brent Conservatives are proposing a 2.5% reduction in Council Tax at Monday's budget-setting meeting, whilst at the same time protecting more front-line services than in the Labour budget proposal.
- Youth service, home care and respite care, CCTV, Children's centres, lollipop ladies, Stonebridge Adventure Playground, leisure centres - all protected.
- Significant savings in press, corporate, business, and admininstration costs.
- No trade union officials on Brent's payroll.
- Growth spending in welfare, respite care, youth services and street cleaning.
- Scrapping of Labour's hated green bin tax.
- Pilot of new parking scratchcard scheme.
Commenting on the budget proposals, the leader of Brent Conservatives, Brondesbury Park councillor John Warren, said, "This Brent Conservative budget is supported by our party as a whole, and concentrates on funding those basic services that our residents expect us to provide. The proposals make significant savings in non-essential, wasteful, and vanity spending of this Labour Council. We believe our hard-pressed Council Tax-payers deserve the 2.5% reduction as a first installment of future Council Tax cuts.