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Bolton Council’s proposed budget is likely to see council tax bills rise by 3.8 per cent from April.
The council have made some changes to their two-year budget agreed in February 2021 which imposed massive cuts of £37M.
The council said their changes would 'limit council tax increases while protecting the most vulnerable by removing £4m of planned cuts'.
The draft 2022/23 budget would see Bolton Council’s portion of the bill rise by 3.12 per cent.
The leader of the Conservative- run authority, Martyn Cox, said that was lower than the optional maximum increase which was available to the council.
The increase includes an extra 1.13 per cent on the adult social care precept which provides ringfenced funding to support vulnerable adults.
Changes to Bolton Council’s element of the council tax are the equivalent of 63p a week for a typical Band A property.
The mayoral precept, which is decided by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, would take the overall increase to 3.8.per cent.
Following the funding settlement from central government, the council is not putting forward additional service cuts during the 2022/23 financial year.
He said an additional £4m has also been provided to fund social care.
The council will use this funding to protect our most vulnerable residents by removing previously proposed cuts to adult and children’s services.
Alongside this, an extra £1m of funding has been identified for highways projects together with £100,000 to improve parking near Moss Bank Park.
Coun Cox, said: “This is a challenging time for local councils with additional pressures to come with rising energy costs and increases in national insurance contributions.
“But we are determined not to pass these added costs directly on to Bolton
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