Parish Council Precept

At its’ meeting on Monday 6^th January, Gravenhurst Parish Council agreed to request a precept of £26,000 for the financial year 2020-2021.  This is the total amount to be raised through council tax payments from all the dwellings within the parish area to help support parish council services and activities.

As always Councillors have looked carefully at what is needed in order to keep any increase to a minimum, and to ensure that the reserves are sufficient to cover any unforeseen expenses as well as the agreed level of running costs.

The ‘precept’ is converted into an amount per council tax band and this forms part of the council tax bill.  The amount payable for a Band D Council Tax dwelling in 2020-2021 will be £100 per year.   This represents an increase of 1.66% (£1.63) on the 2019-2020 contribution of £98.37 per Band D dwelling.

Of course the precept requested by the Parish Council will be added to funds requested by the Police, Fire Services and Central Bedfordshire Council.