What we've done to tackle the challenges so far

In order to help tackle our financial challenges:

• Significantly reduced the number of staff that work at the Council.
• A number of opportunities projects for generating income or reducing costs were implemented and £587,000 of savings from these were applied to the 2019/20 budget.
• A number of these projects are ongoing and could see additional income or reduction in costs of around £900,000.
• Continued use of investment properties helped to generate £2,150,000 of income in 2019/20.
• Increases to fees and charges were made and new charges where introduced where appropriate.
• Council Tax was increased by £5 a year.
• We continued to adopt Systems Thinking* across Council services to reduce costs whilst improving customer satisfaction.
• We continued the prudent use of low cost borrowing.
• Agreed to the introduction of coastal parking charges from summer 2021 onwards.
• Will launch garden waste collection subscription service in early 2022.

*Systems thinking helps to design Council services so that the needs of the customer are met in the simplest and most efficient way.

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