To approve the council tax amounts for each category of dwelling in Herefordshire for 2015/16 including precepts from West Mercia Police, Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority and parishes.

Council was asked to approve the council tax amounts for each category of dwelling in Herefordshire for 2015/16, including precepts from West Mercia Police, Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority and parishes.

The Leader of the Council presented the report and moved the recommendations which were seconded.

A named vote was held.  All Members present voted for the recommendations as follows:   For (50) Councillor PA Andrews, CNH Attwood, JG Bartlett, CM Bartrum, PL Bettington, AJM Blackshaw, WLS Bowen, H Bramer,  ACR Chappell, EMK Chave, PGH Cutter, PJ Edwards, DW Greenow, KS Guthrie, J Hardwick, EPJ Harvey,  JW Hope, MBE, MAF Hubbard, JA Hyde TM James, JG Jarvis,  AW Johnson, Brig P Jones CBE, JLV Kenyon, JF Knipe, JG Lester, MD Lloyd-Hayes, RI Matthews,  RL Mayo, PJ McCaull, SM Michael, JW Millar, PM Morgan, C Nicholls, FM Norman, J Norris, CA North, RJ Phillips, GJ Powell, AJW Powers, PD Price, SJ Robertson, P Rone,  A Seldon, P Sinclair-Knipe,  J Stone; GR Swinford, DC Taylor, GA Vaughan-Powell and DB Wilcox.

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY:

That      (a)     the net budget requirement for 2015/16, excluding parishes, be approved as £141,773,000;

              (b)     the council tax requirement for the council’s own purposes for 2015/16 (excluding parishes) be approved as £83,963,000;

              (c)     the precepting authority details incorporated in appendices 1 to 5 to the report, relating to parishes, West Mercia Police and Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority be approved in accordance with sections 30(2), 34(3), 36(1) and section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (as amended);

              (d)     it be noted that the tax base used for setting the budget requirement for 2015/16:

1)         for the whole council area is calculated as 65,848 band D equivalent properties;

2)         is allocated to band D equivalent dwellings per precept area as shown in appendix 1 to the report; and

              (e)     the following amounts be approved for the year 2015/16 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Regulation 6 (as amended by the Localism Act 2011) :

(i)         £335,050,945 being the estimated aggregate expenditure of the council in accordance with section 31A (2) of the act, including all precepts issued to it by parish councils;

(ii)        £248,028,469 being the estimated aggregate income of the council for the items set out in section 31A (3) of the act (including revenue support grant);

(iii)       £87,022,476 being the amount by which the aggregate at (b)(i) above exceeds the aggregate at (b)(ii) calculated by the council in accordance with section 31A(4) of the act, as its council tax requirement for the year (including parish precepts);

(iv)       £1,321.56 being the amount at b(iii) above divided by the amount of the council tax base calculated by the council, in accordance with section 31B of the act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year (including parish precepts);

(v)        £3,059,321 being the aggregate amount of all special items (parish precepts) referred to in section 34(1) of the act; and

(vi)       £1,275.10 being the amount at (iv) above less the result given by dividing the amount at (v) above by the amount of the council tax base calculated by the council, in accordance with section 34(2) of the act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no parish precept relates (Herefordshire Council band D council tax, excluding parishes).