Council Tax | Comment | Social Care Precept | Comment | CAR PARKING: Do you believe that car-parking charges are currently fair, need increasing or decreasing? | OTHER FEES & CHARGES: Do you believe that our fees are currently fair, need increasing or decreasing? | Comment | CHILDREN'S SPECIALIST SERVICES: includes working with children, young people, their parents / carers and our partners to ensure they are safe and ensure that all children have access to services that protects and promotes their emotional and mental health | EDUCATION, INCLUSION & SKILLS: includes working with partners to deliver educational excellence for all children in York and maintaining a range of high quality specialist provision for children with high needs | COMMUNITIES & EQUALITIES: includes promoting council sports centres, libraries, cultural organisations and events to enhance the city for residents and tourists | Comment | ADULTS COMMISSIONING SERVICES: includes the direct management of all services under contract to the council and we are responsible for the management, quality and development of services in home care, residential and nursing care | ADULT SOCIAL CARE PROVISION & CARE MANAGEMENT: includes supporting adults who have care and support needs to be as safe and as independent as possible and safeguarding people whose circumstances make them vulnerable to abuse or neglect | HOUSING & COMMUNITY SAFETY: includes maintaining good quality housing and increasing housing provision and implementing a Community Safety Strategy for reducing crime and anti-social behaviour, combating misuse of drugs and alcohol and for the reduction of reoffending | PUBLIC HEALTH: includes improving and protecting the health of the residents of the City of York. The ambition is to close the gap in health outcomes between the richest and poorest in the City | Comment | TRANSPORT SERVICES: includes managing the CityÆs highway network, operating transport services, developing transport strategies, parking enforcement and highway design | HIGHWAYS SERVICES: includes maintaining the public highway, ensuring it is fit for use and safe for passage by all highway users | ENVIRONMENT SERVICES: includes the responsibility for waste collection, disposal and providing city wide and location specific services which have a beneficial impact on the social, economic wellbeing and health of residents and tourism | PLANNING & PUBLIC PROTECTION: includes planning applications, enforcement, licensing, food hygiene, trading standards, strategic land use and transport planning | REGENERATION & ASSET MANAGEMENT: includes providing landlord services across 492 buildings, using our assets to regenerate areas of the city to create social, economic and environmental improvements | ECONOMIC GROWTH & PROGRAMMES: includes promoting growth in the York economy, delivering a prosperous city for all and helping the Council listen to businesses | PLASTIC RECYCLING: Would you like us to explore opportunities to increase the amount of plastics that we recycle in the future? | BULKY HOUSEHOLD WASTE: Would you like us to explore alternative options around Bulky Household Waste collections in the future? | BUSINESS RATES: Do you think business rates should be varied to support shops? | Comment | CORPORATE SUPPORT SERVICES: includes all the support services including customer services, ICT, finance and legal | Comment | Maintenance and development of highways and infrastructure assets | Maintenance of historic assets and facilities | Maintenance and refurbishment of parks, play areas and libraries | Maintenance and upkeep of schools | Maintenance and development of IT systems to support frontline services | Flood defence measures | Renewable energy to reduce council and city energy bills | Build more Social Housing - accommodation that is affordable to people on low incomes | Comment | Income | Expenditure | |
3.00% | A 2-3% rise year on year is the most sensible option, although not a moral or realistic replacement for central government revenue grant that has been carelessly withdrawn. | 1.50% | This is a shameful partial plug to money that should come from central Government who would rather spend the money on tax cuts for billionnaires and complicity with mass corporate tax avoidance. | 5.00% | 0.00% | Maintain current levels of fees, all car park fees ought to be invested into public transport ownership, not subsidies, and better walking and cycle lanes. | 0.00% | -5.00% | 5.00% | Council owned sports centres seem to have disappeared, including Yearsley Pool and energise, so I'm not sure what centres or libraries these are. Explore Libraries is not part of the Council, it's a charity, which is a patronising principle in itself. | -15.00% | -5.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 'Commissioning' is a nice polite word for first stage privatisation. Why should the Council do things itself when it can pay a private company more to do a worse job? It's just common sense. | 0.00% | -15.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 10.00% | -15.00% | 10.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | I have marked down 'economic growth;' as it is a short-sighted, delusional and destructive way of looking at the economy. Where are the 'One Planet Principles' that guide everything the Council does exactly? Perhaps you could promote the growth of renewable energy and equality? I further disagree wi… | 0.00% | Maintenance required to prevent central breakdown of administration and processing. | 0.00% | 0.00% | 5.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 10.00% | 10.00% | Renewable energy and energy efficiency measures are a no brainer and clearly a medium term financial and environmental investment. | 102.25% | 96.89% | |
3.00% | Happy to pay more but avoid referendum
| 1.50% | | 0.00% | 0.00% | I have no idea about fees - how would I know whether they need to increase or decrease? | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | | -5.00% | 0.00% | -5.00% | 0.00% | | -5.00% | -5.00% | -5.00% | -5.00% | -5.00% | -5.00% | 10.00% | 5.00% | 5.00% | | -10.00% | | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | | 102.25% | 96.73% | |
0.00% | Cut it | 0.00% | Cut it | -5.00% | -5.00% | Cutbtgem
| -10.00% | -10.00% | 5.00% | Cut benefits to claimants | -10.00% | -10.00% | -10.00% | 5.00% | Cut benefits | 0.00% | 5.00% | 0.00% | -5.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | -15.00% | -15.00% | 5.00% | Cut research into recycling | 0.00% | | -5.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | | 100.00% | 94.16% | Cut benefits claims |