Town Council Budget 2018/19
The Town Council agreed the following budget at its meeting held on 18th January, 2018:
Revenue Items (to be funded from the 2018/19 precept)
Staffing and Administration - £66,690.00
Training - £2,000.00
Festivals - £55,000.00
Community Grants - £5,000.00
Section 137 Expenditure - £1,200.00 (includes Remembrance Day Wreath, Community Awards and Armed Forces Day Grant)
Christmas Lights - £6,000.00
Morecambe in Bloom - £3,000.00
Community Events - £300.00
Toilets Management - £7,000.00
Environmental Enforcement Officer - £12,500.00
Anti Social Behaviour Officer - £14,000.00
Newsletter - £4,000.00
CCTV - £5,000.00
By-Election fund - £6,000.00
Capital Expenditure and One Off Projects
War Memorial Fund - £9,928.28
Community Garden Fund - £7,000.00
Mobile CCTV Cameras - £3,000.00
Social Deprivation Project - £9,000.00
Morecambe in Bloom - £1,500.00 – additional funding brought forward from 2017/18
Purchase of second Speed Indication Device - £2,507.42
Reserves
Office Fund - £55,000.00
Asset replacement Fund - £9,000.00
General Reserves - £9,000.00
Growth reserve Fund - £7,000.00
Total spend (including amounts held in Reserves) in 2018/19 is estimated at £300,625.70
To fund this budget, the Council set its Council Tax rate at £19.59 per Band D property, which will raise a precept of £188,141.38.
This represents no increase on the 2017/18 Council Tax rate.