Alderley Edge Parish Council has agreed to keep the precept for the next financial year at £120,000, which it has been for a couple of years now.
The precept is the part of your council tax which is charged by the Parish Council.
In addition to the £120,000 they will raise in tax next financial year, the Parish Council expects to earn £1200 in rent from the allotments - giving them a proposed income of about £121,660 with interest.
Attached is the summary of the Parish Council's proposed budget for 2015/6 which shows that once again the largest expenditure is the Festival Hall.
Costs for the festival hall are budgeted at just under £97,000 whilst projected income is £53,000, which includes a £15,000 dowry from Cheshire East, so the running of the festival hall is expected to cost taxpayers nearly £44,000 next financial year.
Cllr Keegan commented "The driving force for improving the hall is to generate income in the future to eradicate that continuing cost. So hopefully that should start to decline over the next couple of years."
The budget for the next financial year includes £7800 for an apprentice, £11,800 for the PCSO, £1000 website costs, £6000 for Christmas lights and £4000 for the Christmas lights switch on event, £20,000 for allotment costs including legal fees and compensation for Heyes Lane allotment holders, £4000 for street lighting, £1000 for a youth club, £1000 for Homewatch and £6000 for CCTV.
At the end of the next financial year the Parish Council expects to carry forward a balance of £21,000.
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If a supermarket submits plans to build in a semi residential area they invariably have a clause written into the consent that they are duty bound to sort out the immediate road infrastructure. I feel this development is substantial enough to warrant the council being duty bound to sort out Heyes Lane properly as it currently in a terrible state of patchwork quilt tarmacking
I will ask Highways to appraise the current state of Heyes Lane, as an independent exercise, and to give an approximate cost of refurbishing the road to an acceptable standard.