Involve: We Are Challenging You To Balance The Budget

We Are Challenging You To Balance The Budget - 2018

What we're doing

Since 2010 we have had to reduce our budget by more than £184 million, which means for every pound we spent in 2010, we will have only 60 pence to spend in 2020. We are asking people and businesses to describe their priorities for spending the money that is available by balancing the budget using our online budget simulator.

When we're doing it?

Between 13-Nov-2018 and 31-Dec-2018

We will be

Asking for information
Giving out/sharing information

Themes

Climate change and the environment
Crime and anti-social behaviour
Customer experiences
Education and learning
Events, leisure and culture
Health, wellbeing and lifestyle
Housing
Planning and regeneration
Roads and transport

Where's it happening?

Across the whole of Kirklees:

More information on what we're doing

Future funding patterns are uncertain. Changes to business rates and reductions in government grants, as well as the uncertainty of Brexit, mean our long-term planning is more difficult. That is why this year we are choosing not to consult on a line by line list of service changes.

The Council’s budget gap by 2021 – (that is the difference between our spending plans and our funding for 2019-21) - is forecast to be £16m. In order to set a legal budget, we have to balance the books and eliminate the £16m budget gap.

You can complete the budget simulator by clicking the link on the right of this page.

Can anyone get involved?

Yes

What happened?

- Not available yet

What difference did the work make?

- Not available yet

Methods of involvement

Method	How	How many people	Start	End
Online	Online budget simulator	as many as possible	13-11-2018	31-12-2018

Contact details

Name

Communication

Telephone

01484 221000

communication@kirklees.gov.uk

Documents and links

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