York City Council Budget
Funding
Council Tax: 72.7m
Revenue Support Grant: 20.9m
Business rates: 24.1m
from reserves: 500k
collection fund surplus: 1.2m
Total £119.6m
Total expenditure is also £119.6m so the budget is balanced
The council has debts of £239m at an average of 3.87% interest
What is the chance of the council ever clearing those debts? I will start the ball rolling on that one by suggesting that there is no chance, ever.
How is it for your local council? Would you regard it as prudent?