Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2018 21:21:50 GMT
Have your say on Bexley's Budget - Please submit your response by Friday 11 January 2019.
"People in Bexley are being invited to take part in a survey to influence the Council’s decision-making on next year’s Budget and Council Tax.
Due to falling income, increasing costs and demand, the Council faces a budget gap projected at £9m next year.
“Our aim is to deliver the priorities local people backed at the local elections in May,” said Council Leader Cllr Teresa O’Neill OBE. “We believe it is important to manage our money well and we are working hard to ensure we can deliver the important services on which people rely within the shrinking resources available to us.”
The survey is available online and takes only a few minutes to complete. It asks for views on the following proposed savings –
* Full cost recovery for adult social care services
* Adult social care equipment efficiencies
* Re-routing of transport to day centres
* Review of specialist placements
* Reunifying looked after children with their families
* Reduced funding for community-managed and Council libraries
* Increased charge for residential garden waste (To introduce a £5 increase in the annual charge for the residential garden waste)
* Changes to recycling and waste services(*)
It also asks for views on Council Tax and on charging for services, as well as for other ideas to achieve the savings needed.
“We work hard to keep the Council’s costs down and the eight proposals on which we are consulting represent under 10% of the savings we have identified so far,” explained Cabinet Member for Resources, Cllr David Leaf. “We will deliver the other 90% by continuing to innovate and transform services in ways that will have little or no impact on local people.”
The responses made to the consultation will be considered by the Council’s Public Cabinet in January 2019. The Cabinet will meet again in February, when it will recommend a budget and Council Tax to full Council in early March.
You can watch a webcast of the Cabinet’s discussion of the Budget and read the papers for the meeting online."
www.bexley.gov.uk/news/have-your-say-bexleys-budget
www.bexley.gov.uk/news/consultations/consultation-budget-proposals-201920 (*)
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From last link (*) above:
"Priority in Corporate Plan – Clean and Green Local Places
Sub-priority - Quality Local Places and Public Spaces and Impact on Others
Timescale for implementation – September 2019 onwards
Proposal description
There are a number of service change options to the waste and recycling services which can be introduced separately or in combination with each other.
In all options food waste will continue to be collected weekly. There are no changes proposed to collection to blocks of flats currently on weekly residual waste collections. Some properties would also not be suitable for additional wheel bins and they would remain with boxes for recycling.
Options are as follows-
A. Fortnightly Two Stream dry recycling collections in wheeled bins consisting of alternating week collections of containers (plastic packaging, cans, cartons and glass) and paper & cardboard. With food waste collected weekly in the dry recycling vehicle and retaining two-weekly residual waste collections.
B. Three-weekly residual waste collections, retaining weekly dry recycling collected in boxes. This would include a new service collecting absorbent hygiene products (AHP nappies and incontinent pads) in between the residual waste collections, so these would not remain at any property longer than two weeks.
C. A combination of options A) & B) above. Fortnightly two stream dry recycling collections in wheeled bins and three-weekly residual waste collections including the fill-in AHP service.
D. Three-weekly two stream dry recycling collections in wheeled bins and three-weekly residual waste collections including the fill-in AHP service."
"People in Bexley are being invited to take part in a survey to influence the Council’s decision-making on next year’s Budget and Council Tax.
Due to falling income, increasing costs and demand, the Council faces a budget gap projected at £9m next year.
“Our aim is to deliver the priorities local people backed at the local elections in May,” said Council Leader Cllr Teresa O’Neill OBE. “We believe it is important to manage our money well and we are working hard to ensure we can deliver the important services on which people rely within the shrinking resources available to us.”
The survey is available online and takes only a few minutes to complete. It asks for views on the following proposed savings –
* Full cost recovery for adult social care services
* Adult social care equipment efficiencies
* Re-routing of transport to day centres
* Review of specialist placements
* Reunifying looked after children with their families
* Reduced funding for community-managed and Council libraries
* Increased charge for residential garden waste (To introduce a £5 increase in the annual charge for the residential garden waste)
* Changes to recycling and waste services(*)
It also asks for views on Council Tax and on charging for services, as well as for other ideas to achieve the savings needed.
“We work hard to keep the Council’s costs down and the eight proposals on which we are consulting represent under 10% of the savings we have identified so far,” explained Cabinet Member for Resources, Cllr David Leaf. “We will deliver the other 90% by continuing to innovate and transform services in ways that will have little or no impact on local people.”
The responses made to the consultation will be considered by the Council’s Public Cabinet in January 2019. The Cabinet will meet again in February, when it will recommend a budget and Council Tax to full Council in early March.
You can watch a webcast of the Cabinet’s discussion of the Budget and read the papers for the meeting online."
www.bexley.gov.uk/news/have-your-say-bexleys-budget
www.bexley.gov.uk/news/consultations/consultation-budget-proposals-201920 (*)
[bullets emboldened that may affect most of us]
From last link (*) above:
"Priority in Corporate Plan – Clean and Green Local Places
Sub-priority - Quality Local Places and Public Spaces and Impact on Others
Timescale for implementation – September 2019 onwards
Proposal description
There are a number of service change options to the waste and recycling services which can be introduced separately or in combination with each other.
In all options food waste will continue to be collected weekly. There are no changes proposed to collection to blocks of flats currently on weekly residual waste collections. Some properties would also not be suitable for additional wheel bins and they would remain with boxes for recycling.
Options are as follows-
A. Fortnightly Two Stream dry recycling collections in wheeled bins consisting of alternating week collections of containers (plastic packaging, cans, cartons and glass) and paper & cardboard. With food waste collected weekly in the dry recycling vehicle and retaining two-weekly residual waste collections.
B. Three-weekly residual waste collections, retaining weekly dry recycling collected in boxes. This would include a new service collecting absorbent hygiene products (AHP nappies and incontinent pads) in between the residual waste collections, so these would not remain at any property longer than two weeks.
C. A combination of options A) & B) above. Fortnightly two stream dry recycling collections in wheeled bins and three-weekly residual waste collections including the fill-in AHP service.
D. Three-weekly two stream dry recycling collections in wheeled bins and three-weekly residual waste collections including the fill-in AHP service."