Issue - meetings

At its meeting on 21 November 2018 the Executive Committee considered the Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2019/20 and RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2019/20 be ADOPTED.  

58.7           At its meeting on 21 November 2018, the Executive Committee considered the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2019/20 and recommended to Council that it be adopted. 

58.8           The report which was considered by the Executive Committee had been circulated with the current Agenda and was attached at Pages No. 28-31.

58.9           The recommendation of the Executive Committee was proposed by the Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee and seconded by the Lead Member for Finance and Asset Management.

58.10         Referring to Paragraph 2.2 of the report, a Member questioned whether the £285,000 cost of the current scheme was entirely a cost to the Council or whether some was covered by the government grant. In response, the Revenues and Benefits Manager confirmed that it was a cost to the Council.

58.11         Accordingly, it was

                  RESOLVED          That the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2019/20 be                                     ADOPTED.

To consider a Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2019/20 and make a recommendation to Council for its adoption.  

That it be RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2019/20 be ADOPTED.  

46.1           The report of the Head of Corporate Services, circulated at Pages No. 136-139, recommended that the Council continued with the default local Council Tax Reduction Scheme which had been adopted in April 2013 and Members were asked to make a recommendation to Council to that effect.

46.2           The Revenues and Benefits Manager explained that the Council was required, on an annual basis, to approve a scheme to help residents who required assistance in paying their Council Tax. Councils had an element of discretion about what that looked like; the report before Members recommended that the Council stayed with the default scheme for 2019/20, due to the uncertainty around Universal Credit, but with the understanding that Officers would begin looking at other options for Council Tax reduction schemes going forward.

46.3           Members agreed that this was a sensible way forward and, accordingly, it was