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Councillor Max Schmid stated that he was pleased to announce that this Council would be freezing Council tax for the coming year. This report would be approved by Budget Council later in the month. He noted that other parts of inner London were increasing their Council Tax considerably. He commended Hitesh Jolapara, the Strategic Finance Director, and his team for putting this report together and helping to achieve a lower Council Tax level over the last four years.

RESOLVED:

1.     To freeze the Hammersmith & Fulham element of the council tax charge, and not apply the 3% increase modelled by the Government for the coming year.

2.     To not apply the “social care precept” levy of 3% as modelled by the Government for the coming year.

3.     To set council tax for 2018/19 for each category of dwelling, as calculated in accordance with Sections 31A to 49B of the Localism Act 2011, as outlined below and in full in Appendix A:

(a)       The element of council tax charged for Hammersmith & Fulham Council will be £727.81 per Band D property in 2018/19

(b)       The element of council tax charged by the Greater London Authority will be £294.22 per Band D property in 2018/19

(c)        The overall Council Tax to be set at £1,022.03 per Band D property in 2018/19.

(d)        TheSocial Care Precept set at nil

4.            To set the Council’s own total net expenditure budget for 2018/19 at £138.944m.£

5.            To approve £6.5m new spend on key council services.

6.            To approve fees and charges as set out in paragraph 6.1, including freezes for all parking charges, and all fees and charges in children’s services, adult social care, housing, markets and libraries.

7.            To approve the planned additional contribution of £0.620m to the Efficiency Projects Reserve and estimated contribution of £2.6m from the benefit receivable from the London 100% business rates retention pilot.

8.            To note the budget projections, made by the Strategic Finance Director to 2021/22 in consultation with the Senior Leadership Team

9          To note the statement made by the Strategic Finance Director under Section 25 of the Local Government Act 2003 regarding the adequacy of reserves and robustness of estimates (section 14).

10        To authorise the Strategic Finance Director to collect and recover National Non-Domestic Rate and Council Tax in accordance with the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (as amended), the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and the Council Schemes of Delegation.

11        To require all Directors report on their projected financial position compared to their revenue estimates in accordance with the Corporate Revenue Monitoring Report timetable.

12        To authorise Directors to implement their service spending  ...  view the full minutes text for item 116