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How did your councillor vote on the budget for 24/25?

The voting results from yesterday's Powys County Council meeting reveal who voted for setting the budget for 24/25, which includes a 7.5% council tax increase and who voted against.

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The voting results from yesterday's Powys County Council meeting reveal who voted for setting the budget for 24/25, which includes a 7.5% council tax increase and who voted against.

As we reported yesterday, Powys County councillors met to discuss and debate their budget for the upcoming year.


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Next year’s council budget is set to go up to of £341.2 million after the council were told they would receive a 2.8 per cent increase in funding from the Welsh Government just before Christmas.

To balance next year’s budget a funding gap of £18.458 million needs to be plugged. Of that figure £10.652 million of this will be addressed by the council in a mixture of cuts, savings, and income generation. The Council Tax increase is supposed to cover the remaining £7.805 million.

The voting results have now been published, showing which way each county councillor voted. The county councillors for Newtown are shown below. The full list of votes can be found here.

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Cllr Adam Kennerly

Newtown Llanllwchaiarn North
Liberal Democrat

  For

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Cllr Peter Lewington

Newtown Llanllwchaiarn West
Conservative

  Against

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Cllr Joy Jones

Newtown East
Independent

  Against

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Cllr David Selby

Newtown Central
Liberal Democrat

  For

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Cllr Kelly Healy

Newtown Central
Liberal Democrat

  For

Councillors will meet again soon to formally set the rate of council tax, taking into account the precepts added by the Police & Crime Commissioner and Town Council.

 

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