Issue - meetings

Report of Councillor Shuttleworth on behalf of the Cabinet.  Referred from Cabinet on 2 December 2020.

Councillor Shuttleworth moved and Councillor Tutt seconded the recommendations from Cabinet to approve the Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme and continue with the Exceptional Hardship scheme.

This was put to the Council and approved unanimously.

Resolved –

1.    To adopt the 2020/21 Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme as the 2021/22 scheme; and

2.    To continue the Exceptional Hardship Scheme in 2021/22.

Report of Director of Service Delivery

Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Alan Shuttleworth

Recommended to Full Council (Budget and policy framework):

(1) To recommend to Full Council that the 2020/21 Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme is adopted as the 2021/22 scheme.

(2) That the Exceptional Hardship Scheme be continued in 2021/22.

The Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Service Delivery, seeking their agreement to recommend the Full Council that the 2020/21 local council tax reduction scheme be adopted as the 2021/22 scheme.

Recommended to Full Council (Budget and policy framework):

(1) To recommend to Full Council that the 2020/21 Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme is adopted as the 2021/22 scheme.

(2) That the Exceptional Hardship Scheme be continued in 2021/22.

Reason for decisions:

The 2020/21 scheme meets the principles of supporting the most vulnerable with the Exceptional Hardship scheme providing an extra level of support for those most affected.