No help for high priority caring services
A bid to obtain more funding for respite care has been snubbed by West Sussex County Council, which has refused to divert money from its own newspaper and extra grass-cutting plans to help high priority caring services.
An attempt to scrap West Sussex County Council's Connections newspaper and abandon plans for extra grass-cutting was defeated at Friday's budget meeting. Lib Dems said people should be put before grass-cutting, but Conservatives maintained the extra cutting was planned in response to huge public demand right across West Sussex, and would improve the street scene. The amendment was voted out at the end of the budget debate, when the county council approved a 4.9 per cent increase in council-tax, pushing the county share of bills up to 1,001.34 at band D '“ with more severe criticism of the government's disastrous grant settlement for the county.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette Fedbruary 23