Today councillors spent several hours setting budgets for the coming year … revenue, capital and carbon.
The administration councillors (Conservative, Liberal Democrat and independent) and the opposition parties (SNP, Green, Alba and others) put forward their slightly differing views.
Alba councillors tried to change the council tax decision made last month by the full Aberdeenshire Council but received no support.
The other highlight which stuck in my mind was a bid by the Green party to abandon road maintenance for six months. To be fair, they have put that forward before. The pandemic put paid to most road maintenance of course and that didn’t end well. We still have potholes awaiting repair. That didn’t gain majority support.
You can read more about the £660m revenue budget and so on here https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/apps/news/release.aspx?newsID=8480.
Ian Mollison
Liberal Democrat councillor for North Kincardine 2007-22
Don’t we normally get a summary of the financial report for council spending for previous year when we receive our new increased council tax bill? Just received a 1 page detail of council tax for current year. Not everyone has access or ability to use the internet.
You are right … but not for the past couple of years.