Where do you think Thame’s money should be spent?
On 29/10/2015 At 10:49 pm
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THAME Town Council is starting work on setting its budget for 2016-17, and it wants residents to tell them where they think more money, less money or the same amount of money should be spent on the council’s various projects, functions and services.
Currently the average household contributes £2.40 per week towards the funding TTC’s various areas of responsibility. The council states on its website: ” Under the current drive for Localism, there is much discussion about devolution of services from County / District to parishes and we must consider whether to take on certain services that Oxfordshire County Council can no longer fund.
“There are other pressures on the budget through National Insurance changes and the removal of a Government grant. The cost of monitoring and ensuring continuity of the Neighbourhood Plan is also significant and there are also suggestions that Thame would benefit from a Market Town Co-Ordinator.”
The town council will agree its budget at a meeting scheduled for January, 19, 2016. Contact the council via the website: http://tiny.cc/oq9c5x
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Restore a separate tourist office which is open on Saturdays. As I recall, the one we originally had was closed by the District Council. If this was for economic reasons maybe the decision was a false economy. When one visits a new town or resort its tourist office somehow underlines its difference or separateness from one’s familiar world – as a place worth exploring and values itself, and a place to which its worth returning.
How about repairing the pavements on Lashlake estate – especially Willow Road!! There’s quite a few of your older residents living there, who have been paying their rates/taxes for decades. My mum, who’s lived there since 1968 and is 80, chooses to walk on the road because she is worried that the uneven suraces might cause her to trip or fall – it has happened before!! Thank you and fingers crossed!