Agenda item

To consider a report of the Deputy Leader of the Council and Executive Councillor (Support & Governance) and to pass the appropriate resolutions setting the Council Tax for 2016/17.

The Deputy Leader of the Council (Support & Governance) (Councillor Iain Roberts) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out the Council Tax for 2016/17 and the level of precepts for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority.

RESOLVED (44 for, 12 against) –

(1) That it be noted that on 16 December 2015, the following amount was approved by the Executive Committee as the Council's Council Tax Base for the financial year 2016/17:

·         90,697.7 for the whole Council area [Item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the "Act")]

(2) That the Council Meeting approve the Council Tax Requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2016/17 as being £131,460,874.

(3) That the following amounts be calculated by the Council for the year 2016/17 in accordance with sections 31 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:

(a)       £610,742,594 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in section 31A(2) of the Act (Appendix Two).

(b)       £479,281,720 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in section 31A(3) of the Act (Appendix Two).

(c )       £131,460,874 being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with section 31A(4) of the Act, as its Council Tax Requirement for the year (Item R in the formula in Section 31B of the Act). (Appendix Two).

(d)       £1,449.44 being the amount at 3(c) above, all divided by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year.

(e)       £0.00  being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in section 34(1) of the Act

(f)        £1,449.44 being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by the amount by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no special item relates.

(4) That it be noted that for the year 2016/17 the Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority have issued precepts to the Council in accordance with section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each category of dwellings in the Council's area as indicated in the table below.

(5) That the Council, in accordance with Sections 30 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in the tables below as the amounts of Council Tax for 2016/17 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

(6) That the Council, in accordance with section 52ZB of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 hereby determines that the Council’s relevant basic amount of council tax for 2015/16 is not excessive in accordance with the principles determined by the Secretary of State under section 52ZC of the Act.

The names of those councillors voting on this resolution were recorded as follows:-

Those councillors who voted for the resolution were:-

The Mayor (Councillor Andrew Verdeille); The Deputy Mayor (Councillor June Somekh); Councillors Geoff Abell, Shan Alexander, Sheila Bailey, Stuart Bodsworth, Walter Brett, Peter Burns, Kate Butler, Martin Candler, Richard Coaton, Christine Corris, Stuart Corris, Dickie Davies, Sue Derbyshire, Roy Driver, Dean Fitzpatrick, Colin Foster, Alex Ganotis, Chris Gordon, Graham Greenhalgh, Tom Grundy, Philip Harding, Daniel Hawthorne, Kevin Hogg, Keith Holloway, Sylvia Humphreys, Sue Ingham, Mags Kirkham, Hazel Lees, Patrick McAuley, Tom McGee, Wendy Meikle, Adrian Nottingham, Wendy Orrell, John Pantall, Paul Porgess, Iain Roberts, David Sedgwick, Andy Sorton, John Taylor, Wendy Wild, David Wilson and Suzanne Wyatt.

Those councillors who voted against the resolution were:-

Councillors Brian Bagnall, Kenny Blair, Annette Finnie, Paul Hadfield, Linda Holt, Mike Hurleston, Oliver Johnstone, Julian Lewis-Booth, Syd Lloyd, John McGahan, Alanna Vine and John Wright.