{"id":40082,"date":"2020-02-11T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=40082"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:10:06","slug":"barry-residents-face-58p-average-tax-increase-to-fund-local-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2020\/02\/11\/barry-residents-face-58p-average-tax-increase-to-fund-local-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents face 58p average tax increase for Barry services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Town council\u00a0needs more money to pay for upkeep of\u00a0cemeteries,events and &#8216;special projects&#8217;\u00a0 <\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/top-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40085\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/top-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40085\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/top-image-1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Barry Town Council discussed budget plans last night at the Town Hall, Kings Square.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>PEOPLE&nbsp;<\/strong>in Barry will be asked to pay an average of 58p more per year from April for services from the town council.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Barry<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Town Council&nbsp;is suggesting a&nbsp;rise&nbsp;in&nbsp;their portion of&nbsp;council tax&nbsp;as they predict they&nbsp;will need \u00a31,196,579 to fully deliver services&nbsp;and their projected income is only&nbsp;\u00a3177,304.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Their portion of the council&nbsp;tax is rising, on average,&nbsp;from&nbsp;\u00a357.67 to \u00a358.25 from April, to fund some local services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This is not the final council tax amount that Barry residents will have to pay. The final bill includes payments to the Vale of&nbsp;Glamorgan&nbsp;Council and police services and will be confirmed on February 26.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The town council&#8217;s part of the bills will pay for things such as Management and Support Services,&nbsp;Planning, Merthyr&nbsp;Dyfan&nbsp;Cemetery, Porthkerry Cemetery, Pioneer Hall, Community Building at Cemetery Approach Gardens, Corporate,&nbsp;Civic and&nbsp;Special&nbsp;Projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Money for these services&nbsp;goes&nbsp;towards&nbsp;the upkeep of the facilities&nbsp;such as cleaning equipment, road maintenance and bills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Many events are also paid for from this budget. For example, the&nbsp;upcoming&nbsp;VE Day celebrations, which are still being planned by the council, will be paid for&nbsp;by the council.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>At a meeting last night, there were discussions&nbsp;over \u00a310,000&nbsp; going towards&nbsp;the&nbsp;Barry Shop Local Campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The campaign, which started in 2016,&nbsp;hopes to boost fortunes for local traders in Barry.&nbsp;It focuses on shops&nbsp;on&nbsp;Broad&nbsp;Street, High Street, Island Road, Vere Street, Holton Road, Thompson Street, and Park Crescent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>They use most of the budget to hold events which promote local shops. For example, \u00a31,725 is being spent on the Dewi Sant festival on the&nbsp;weekend of&nbsp;February&nbsp;29.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The discussion&nbsp;over the budget for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Barry Shop Local Campaign was about the use of social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Councillor&nbsp;Sandra Perkes told the council that social media for the shop local campaign had been going for two months, but they required \u00a3800 for it&nbsp;to continue for another two months.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The council heard that the Shop Local Campaign were asking for \u00a3400 of next year&#8217;s budget so the campaign could continue for five more months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>There were discussions&nbsp;over what the money was being used for, as there hadn\u2019t been much social media activity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Counc&nbsp;Perkes said: \u201cIt is effective in some ways, but we need a longer period of time to see how social media works.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u00a331,000 of the budget is being spent on special projects this year. One special project&nbsp;is&nbsp;Barry&nbsp;Youth Action, a youth council&nbsp;that works to ensure sure young people\u2019s views and ideas are taken seriously.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The council are also&nbsp;focusing&nbsp;on&nbsp;Dementia friendly projects,&nbsp;which are receiving \u00a36,000 of the budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/barry-town-council-bud.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The budget includes many special projects, such as the Barry Youth Council and Dementia Friendly projects. You can see the rest of the budget plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrytowncouncil.gov.uk\/news.php?Action=News&amp;News_ID=163\">here.<\/a> <br \/><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> Barry Town Council <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The average Council Tax&nbsp;bill this year&nbsp;is&nbsp;based on a Band D taxpayer. Your council tax band&nbsp;determines how much council tax you pay and bands differ based on the value of your property.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>You can check what council tax band you are in<a href=\"https:\/\/ecitizen.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk\/publicaccesslive\/selfservice\/services\/counciltax\/bandsearch.htm\">&nbsp;here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>It is a smaller&nbsp;rise&nbsp;than last year as the&nbsp;council&nbsp;raised&nbsp;the tax&nbsp;from&nbsp;\u00a352.58 to \u00a357.67,&nbsp;based on a Band D property.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>A rise of \u00a310.67&nbsp;to \u00a363.25 per year was discussed but only six councillors&nbsp; voted for it with nine&nbsp;against and four abstensions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The council heard that the budget is quite tight, but they still&nbsp;aspire to fulfill their services to the town.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>It was stressed that&nbsp;putting money aside&nbsp;this year&nbsp;is important&nbsp;as they do not know what opportunities may arise.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Councillor&nbsp;Shirley Hodges said: \u201cI am glad to see a low council tax rate.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>All&nbsp;councillors&nbsp;present at the meeting last at Barry Town Hall, Kings Square, agreed with the council tax raise proposal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Vale of&nbsp;Glamorgan&nbsp;Council&nbsp;have also proposed a council tax rise&nbsp;from \u00a3130.00 to&nbsp;\u00a3136.37 a month, based on a Band D council taxpayer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Councillor&nbsp;Neil Moore, Leader to the Vale of&nbsp;Glamorgan&nbsp;Council, said:&nbsp;\u201cWe have listened to residents when it comes to our budget proposals for the next financial year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe majority of those who responded to our consultation indicated they would prefer an increase in Council tax of 4.9 per cent alongside some cuts that would normally accompany such a modest rise.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat is exactly what we are proposing, but without the need to cut services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town council\u00a0needs more money to pay for upkeep of\u00a0cemeteries,events and &#8216;special projects&#8217;\u00a0 PEOPLE&nbsp;in Barry will be asked to pay an average of 58p more per year from April for services from the town council.&nbsp;&nbsp; Barry&nbsp;Town Council&nbsp;is suggesting a&nbsp;rise&nbsp;in&nbsp;their portion of&nbsp;council tax&nbsp;as they predict they&nbsp;will need \u00a31,196,579 to fully deliver services&nbsp;and their projected income is only&nbsp;\u00a3177,304.&nbsp; Their portion of the council&nbsp;tax is rising, on average,&nbsp;from&nbsp;\u00a357.67 to \u00a358.25 from April, to fund some local services.&nbsp; This is not the final council tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":40083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[144,145,496,497,498,499,427,428],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-40082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barry","category-longer-reads","tag-barry","tag-barry-island","tag-barry-town","tag-barry-town-council","tag-council-tax","tag-council-tax-increase","tag-vale-of-glamorgan","tag-vale-of-glamorgan-council"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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