At the Scruiting Committee meeting Cllr Philip Capper mentioned there was 1.3 million unallocated funds, so proposed they use part of it to set Council Tax at 4.95% & the remainder to go into Education & it was passed. It then went to Cabinet & again passed & now will go to the Full Council next week. I don't know where you are getting your facts from Norman but I haven't seen anything like them & I have been following this for a while. We have to stop blaming our Councillors for this, as it's all down to The Welsh Government & the unfair way they have of allocating funding. Conwy County have the highest rate of elderly in the world & the Welsh Government refuse to recognise this. Conwy's recent settlement from WG was the 2nd lowest in all of Wales, so the Leader went down to Cardiff to see if he could make them see the problem we have with the cost incurred by the elderly, but they refused to take it into consideration after what was said. The way of calculating what each County gets is most unfair & five of the North Wales Counties got the lowest settlements. So as you see it's like banging their heads against a brick wall & the South will always come first.
Cllr Ronnie Hughes had an unusual take on it, he said why don't we have our own Welsh Government up here in North Wales & make our own decisions with our own budgets, which was food for thought. Another thing he pointed out was if we have now left the EU why are we still paying them £250,000 out of our funds.