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Report of the Cabinet Member Finance

The Cabinet Member Finance introduced the report, the purpose of which was to enable the Council to set the Council Tax for 2015/16. The Council was required to formally approve the total Council Tax for residents of Cheltenham, including the Council Tax requirements of the precepting organisations Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Police and Parish Councils.

A recorded vote was required upon the recommendation in the report and this was unanimously CARRIED.

Voting for 36: Cllrs Babbage, Barnes, Baker, Britter, Chard, Clucas, Coleman, Fisher, Fletcher, Flynn, Harman, C Hay, R Hay, Jeffries, Jordan, Lansley, Lillywhite, Mason, McCloskey, McKinlay, Murch, Nelson, Payne, Rawson, Regan, Reid, Ryder, Seacome, Stennett, Sudbury, Thornton, Walklett, Wheeler, Whyborn, Wilkinson, Williams.

RESOLVED THAT

The formal Council Tax resolution at Appendix 2 be approved and that the commentary in respect of an increase in Council Tax at Paragraph 6 of Appendix 2 be noted.