Motion to July
Full Council in the names of Cllrs
Andrew Cooper, Sue Lee-Richards and Karen
Allison
Motion -
The
proper funding of local services
The UK is a
member of the Council of Europe (this is not the European Union) and as such is
a signatory to the European Charter of Local Self Government.
The provisions
of the Charter state
“The
protection of financially weaker local authorities calls for the institution of
financial
equalisation
procedures or equivalent measures which are designed to correct the effects of
the unequal
distribution of potential sources of finance and of the financial burden they
must
support.
Such procedures or measures shall not diminish the discretion local authorities
may
exercise
within their own sphere of responsibility”.
It has been
demonstrated that Kirklees Council is seriously underfunded per head of
population compared with other Councils with similar responsibilities and
characteristics.
This Council
calls on the Leader of Kirklees Council to raise this breach with
-
the Council of Europe in his role as a member of
that body
-
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities
and Local Government
This Council further calls on the Leader
of the Council, working with all other political group leaders , to request
that Government takes steps to ensure that Kirklees is properly able to fund
local services and that Government fulfils its obligations as a signatory of
the European Charter of Self Government.
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