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Amended appendix due to the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Combined Fire Authority precept being reduced by £1 since publication of the agenda.

In accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, voting on this motion was recorded.

Councillors Bools, Bray, Cartwright, Cope, J Crooks, W Crooks, Flemming, C Gibbens, S Gibbens, Green, Hodgkins, Hollick, Lambert, Lynch, Moore, L Mullaney, M Mullaney, Pendlebury, Stead-Davis, Walker, Webber-Jones, Weightman and Williams voted FOR the motion (23);

Councillors R Allen, Cook, Harris, O’Shea, Simmons, Smith, Surtees and Sutton voted AGAINST the motion (8).

The motion was therefore declared CARRIED and it was

RESOLVED – in accordance with the Local Government Finance Act 1992, the following be approved for 2024/25:

(i)            £65,032,814 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act (gross expenditure on general fund services, special district expenses and parish precepts);

(ii)          £56,095,425 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act (gross income including external financing and the use of reserves);

(iii)         £8,937,389 being the amount by which the aggregate at (i) above exceeds the aggregate at (ii) above calculated by the council in accordance with Section 31A(4) of the Act as its council tax requirement for the year (amount to be funded from council tax including special expenses and parish precepts);

(iv)         £154.87 being the amount calculated by the council, in accordance with Section 31(B) of the Act as the basic amount of its council tax for the year (average local council tax not including parish precepts);

(v)          A band D council tax for borough wide services, excluding special expenses and parish council precepts of £135.50;

(vi)         An average band D council tax relating to borough wide services and an average of special expenses and parish council services of £224.63;

(vii)        Appendix B to the report being the council tax for the HBBC district divided by the tax base, including amounts for the Leicestershire County Council, the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire, and Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Combined Fire Authority, and for each area and valuation (council tax band charges for each parish and special expenses area).