| Comment | I think someone posted GCC's expenses sometime last year and the biggest drain was none of the things you mentioned. The settlement hurts, ofcourse. It's nearly £200 million, but that's being paid with a loan and thus year to year the expenditure on it is fairly low.
If I understand the budgets on the website correctly, total service expenditure from the council is equal to £2.64 Billion. Almost a billion of that is funded from revenue, £1.36Billion is provided by the national budget and the difference of £309 million was to be picked up by taxes.
While GCC can't afford to spend £50 million recklessly; that money wouldn't cover 2 months of the environmental services you mentioned which isn't the largest part of the budget. The majority of spending is in social services and such. |
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