Highland Council Host Facebook Chat On Budget Plans
Highland Council's logging onto Facebook tonight for the first in a series of discussions on their budget plans.
Highland Council's logging onto Facebook tonight for the first in a series of discussions on their budget plans.
Tonight's session will focus on council tax, with the local authority planning to freeze the payment for the eighth successive year.
Leader of the Council Margaret Davidson will be on the council's Facebook event page from 5.30pm to 6.30pm tonight.
She said: “Like other Local Authorities, The Highland Council is facing an unprecedented forecast budget deficit over the next 3 years. We are currently looking at a wide range of proposals and ideas to save money and increase income.
“We would really like to know what people think about continuing the council tax freeze. This is the eighth successive year that the Council has frozen the Council Tax in line with every other local authority across Scotland. This has led to a reduced budget in real terms over the past several years.
“People are increasingly saying to me that they do not want to see more cuts in frontline services, such as gritting our roads.
“This is the first of a series of facebook chats we will be holding over the next few weeks to find out what people think about a range of issues. This is the first time I will have taken part in one of these events online and I am looking forward to chatting to people across the Highlands.”
The Facebook chat can be found on the Highland Council Facebook page under Events: https://www.facebook.com/events/667506396724910/