Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendations.

The Chief Officer (Community and Enterprise) explained that there was a requirement for the Council to formally adopt the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for the Authority on an annual basis.

                        There was limited discretion given to the Council to apply additional elements that were more generous than the normal scheme and details of the discretions exercised in the current scheme were outlined in the report.

                        To mitigate inflationary increase in Council Tax, the Council had set a budget provision of £317,000 for 2016/17 which assumed an annual increase in Council Tax of 3.0%.

            RESOLVED:

That the adoption of the Council Tax Reduction Scheme and to maintain the current discretionary elements for 2016-17 be agreed.