Glasgow City Council faces a £119 million budget gap
Glasgow councillors have united to say “enough is enough” and call for greater funding for the city as a £119 million budget gap looms.
City treasurer, councillor Ricky Bell, SNP, said: “The role and rightful place of local government must be respected and must be financed accordingly. “That is not particularly helpful for Glasgow, we don’t have many people in the upper bands of council tax, putting the percentage that they pay up will not return a lot of money to us.
Councillor Aitken said their “demands” had been “considerably more radical” than the initial Labour motion, which was amended by the SNP and Greens.“We need to think about how we use general revenue raising powers at a local level, which we shouldn’t forget will put an additional tax burden on our citizens, in order to drive forward improvements in our city.”
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