News Town is set for tax hike
Council-tax payers can expect to see the precept in Goole rise by 3.3 per cent in the next financial year, after Goole Town Councillors voted to accept the Labour group's budget.
£60,000 is to be spent on the Hook Road cemetery extension.
At the meeting Labour councillors put forward their plans, which showed £60,000 being put towards the Goole cemetery extension, £7,000 for new fencing at Kings Gardens at the corner of Centenary Road and Airmyn Road and £4,000 for pension contribution increases.
Cllr Pat O'Neil said: "Our commitment this year has to be for the cemetery; this work is absolutely vital now. There will soon be no space for burials in Goole cemetery.
"I would like to see Kings Gardens fenced in a similar way to the Memorial Gardens. I think it would look very attractive and it can't be done with community sums.
"The reason I would like it fencing is because it has become the Friday night nightclub."
Cllr Pat O'Neil also suggested combining the HHAG Reserve with the Goole Disaster Fund and calling it the Goole Community Fund.
The Lib Dems proposed a three per cent increase to last year's precept and monies left in capital development to be spent on bus shelters and the West Park bandstand area with Goole in Bloom in mind.
Cllr Jean Kitchen said: "I was hoping to see improvements in West Park in light of Goole in Bloom. The area that is letting it down is the bandstand, the gravel paths and the rose beds. I really felt that this was quite important."
The Lib Dems also proposed that £4,000 - £5,000 be spent on bus shelters for Lansdown Road and the Fairfield terminus.
Cllr Pat O'Neil added: "I would love to see the bandstand being refurbished but that is inconceivable this year - I want to set work that is actually going to happen, not set aside money for the future."
The majority of councillors voted in favour of Labour's budget.
The proposed precept of £825,500 will now be passed onto the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and will be incorporated into the 2008-2009 council tax bill.
Published on 10th January 2008 in News.
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