The City of Edinburgh Council is facing a budget challenge. We need to change the way we allocate resources across our services and reduce the amount of money we spend each year by 7% by 2018. So we have some decisions to make about where we invest our money and where we need to save.
This is your chance to have your say.
The Council has launched a consultation on its budget including both specific changes for 2015/16, and a detailed budget planner that can be used to express your priorities for the Council over the next three years.
More information about the different ways you can get involved is on the Council’s budget page. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/budget
The Council wants residents to be involved in making decisions about services, especially where the Council invests over £800m of spending on services each year. By involving residents the Council hopes to raise awareness of what services it provides using public money and to prioritise those services that people most want and need.
This consultation runs from 3 October 2014 to 19 December 2014. The results of this consultation will be reported to the Council’s Finances and Resources Committee in February 2015. The Council will publish the results of this consultation here and on its website. Where individual respondents gave their email address, they will be individually notified of the results and updated with the actions the Council takes as a result. This information will be available in Spring 2015 when the 2015/16 budget is finalised.
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