Liverpool Council website allows people to help set budget
RESIDENTS are being asked to help Liverpool council decide its spending priorities through a new interactive website.
The local authority has to save £91m due to a huge cut in Government grants and other spending pressures, and tough choices will have to be made.
Last week, the council announced 1,500 workers – one in six of the 9,000-strong workforce – would lose their job in the cuts.
Now the council is inviting people to use an online budget calculator – You Choose – to consider where spending should fall, where efficiencies might be made and where income might be generated.
Deputy council leader Paul Brant said: “This is a chance for local people to tell us what their priorities are and where they would choose to direct our spending. It is an opportunity to get involved in the choices we are grappling with in order to balance the books.
“We want to protect, as far as possible, the essential services to children, the disabled and vulnerable who need the lifeline of the services the council provides.”
THE city council is due to set its budget on March 2. To have your say on the budget, visit http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/news/Budget.asp. The closing date is midnight on Sunday, Feb 20.
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