COUNCIL tax in Barnsley is set to rise for the next three years to ‘blunt the impact’ of more savage cuts to the council’s budget.
Barnsley Council has to slash £17.8 million between 2017 - 2020 in order to balance the books, according to bleak proposals to be discussed by council chiefs next week.
The proposals show 156 jobs will be put at risk and residents will be hit with a ‘double whammy’ as services continue to be reduced and council tax increased - first by 3.9 per cent in 2017/18 and 2.9 per cent thereafter.
That means by 2020 residents in Barnsley will be paying ten per cent more in council tax than they were in 2015, despite years of government cuts and the authority’s workforce slashed by half.
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