|
The average council tax paid by residents in Worthing is £17.84 per week.
Of every pound 77p goes to WSCC,
9p goes to pay for the Police, and
14p is for WBC.
This amounts to £2.48 per week average per household.
This represents £6.424 million
and the central government contributes £8.176million
- Total £14.6million
This goes to pay for items including:
- Refuse Collection
- Street Cleaning
- Tourism
- Recycling
- Parks and open spaces
- Aquarena and Leisure Centre
- Economic Development
- Environmental Initiatives
- Theatres and public entertainment
- Maintaining the sea front
- Grants to voluntary organisations
- Planning
The budget does not balance and to keep services at the current level the council tax needs to rise by 35p per household per week (14.3%).
The options are:
- 35p inccrease
- 25p increase with savings of £250,000
- less than 25p increase with savings more than £250,000
Six Options for saving are suggested
- Close the Museum £129,000 saving 5.5p
- Close the Aquarena and paddling pool £230,000 saving 9.9p
- Close some public toilets £35,000 saving 1.5p
- Cut back Leisure Development £29,000 saving 1.2p
- Cut back advertising the theatres £21,000 saving .9p
- Hold staff (about 4) vacancies £100,000 saving 4.3p
Worthing Borough Council
|
| |
According to the figures published in the Argus Sentinel 10 Dec 2003
the WBC Council Tax figures for last year were |
| |
| Parks and Open Spaces | 1,630,000 |
| Refuse Collection | 987,000 |
| Theatres and Public Entertainment | 903,000 |
| Street Cleaning | 680,000 |
| Aquarena and Leisure Centre | 495,000 |
| Seafront | 343,000 |
| Tourism | 204,000 |
| Economic Development | 184,000 |
| Grants to voluntary organisations | 161,000 |
| Recycling | 149,000 |
| Environmental Initiatives | 129,000 |
| Total | 5,461,000 |
| Other staff and Expenses | 9,239,000 |
| Total | 14,700,000 |
| |
West Sussex County Council
| millions |
Community Development
(incl. Libraries, Archives and Community
Planning) | 14.3 |
| Education and the Arts | 485.1 |
| Information Services | 8.7 |
Public Safety
(incl. Fire,Waste and Trading Standards) | 62.6 |
| Resources | 29.8 |
| Social and Caring Services | 243.4 |
Strategic Environmental Services
(incl. Highways, Planning & Economic
Development) | 65.8 |
Non Portfolio Budgets
(incl. asset management adjustment) | -104.1 |
| Total | 805.6 |
| Less Fees | -87.0 |
| Less specific grants | -73.8 |
| Total | 644.8 |
|
Goring-by-Sea