{"id":1303,"date":"2014-02-07T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2014-02-07T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:25:19","slug":"doubts-raised-over-cardiff-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/07\/doubts-raised-over-cardiff-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts raised over Cardiff budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Cardiff Council&#8217;s ability to follow through on proposals to make \u00a345m of budget cuts has been called into doubt.<\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"Council announces \u00a345m budget cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/2014\/01\/31\/council-announces-45m-budget-cuts\/\">The council unveiled details of how it plans to slash \u00a345m from its 2014\/15 budget last week<\/a>, but some \u00a312m of those savings are rated by the council as &#8216;red&#8217; or\u00a0&#8216;amber-red&#8217; on its own traffic light scale of achievability.<br \/>\nAdrian Robson, Independent councillor for Rhiwbina said: &#8220;I am concerned about whether the council can achieve the cuts detailed in the proposed budget,<br \/>\nespecially with what has happened in this financial year, with some of the savings they have been unable to achieve.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe council had to make extra cuts to its budget for 2013\/14 to curb a projected \u00a33.9m overspend.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1332\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/new-theatre.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1332 \" alt=\"Cardiff Council will look to offload the running of the New Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/new-theatre-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1332 \" alt=\"Cardiff Council will look to offload the running of the New Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/new-theatre-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cardiff Council will look to offload the running of the New Theatre<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCoun Robson also called on the Labour cabinet to clarify some of the proposals further: \u201cThere\u2019s quite a lot of ambiguity in this particular budget. \u201cIt brings the question, they have put in a contingency fund of about \u00a33m. Is that going to be enough? Is it going to be seen as an excuse? Are departments going to think they don\u2019t have to be so stringent on their savings?&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cWhen the council is forced to make some in-year cuts, normally they\u2019re rushed decisions, we don\u2019t have the full consultations.\u201d<br \/>\nRussell Goodway, Cabinet Member for Finance and Economic Development, admitted that there was some \u201crisk inherent\u201d in the budget proposals he presented to councillors on January 30. \u201cA bust council will be of no benefit to this city,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1312\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/achievablecuts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1312 \" alt=\"More than a quarter of proposed savings are rated 'red' or 'red-amber'\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/achievablecuts-1024x324.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1312 \" alt=\"More than a quarter of proposed savings are rated 'red' or 'red-amber'\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/achievablecuts-1024x324.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"194\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> More than a quarter of proposed savings are rated &#8216;red&#8217; or &#8216;red-amber&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOf the 331 proposals put forward by the council to save money, 43, totalling \u00a311.1m are rated &#8216;red-amber&#8217; while four are rated &#8216;red&#8217;, adding up to \u00a31.1m. The four proposed cuts rated as &#8216;red&#8217; for achievability on the traffic light scale are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A \u00a3200,000 cut to funding for the Community Alcohol and Drug Team.<\/li>\n<li>Another \u00a3200,000 from changes to the council&#8217;s day service for the elderly.<\/li>\n<li>Cutting Cardiff Story museum staff to a skeleton level, saving \u00a3180,000.<\/li>\n<li>Finding another company to run St David&#8217;s Hall and the New Theatre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"View from the streets on Cardiff council\u2019s budget cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/2014\/01\/31\/view-from-the-streets-on-cardiff-councils-budget-cuts\/\">Cardiff residents gave their views on the budget proposals to our roving reporter last week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Council&#8217;s ability to follow through on proposals to make \u00a345m of budget cuts has been called into doubt. The council unveiled details of how it plans to slash \u00a345m from its 2014\/15 budget last week, but some \u00a312m of those savings are rated by the council as &#8216;red&#8217; or\u00a0&#8216;amber-red&#8217; on its own traffic light scale of achievability. Adrian Robson, Independent councillor for Rhiwbina said: &#8220;I am concerned about whether the council can achieve the cuts detailed in the proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1729,52],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-budget-cuts","tag-cardiff-council"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doubts raised over Cardiff budget cuts - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/07\/doubts-raised-over-cardiff-budget-cuts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doubts raised over Cardiff budget cuts - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cardiff Council&#8217;s ability to follow through on proposals to make \u00a345m of budget cuts has been called into doubt. 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