#public-services

#public-services

City Council considered a possible tax rate election to address Austin's $33 million deficit with a proposed budget of $6.3 million. The maximum increase could be 8 cents.

The world’s most important financial watchdog has warned that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will likely break a key party manifesto pledge by hiking taxes or cutting public services.

A Department of Home Affairs employee in Paarl was bitten and assaulted by a male client who became aggressive over document submission, resulting in the office's closure.

They are in a deep hole of their own creation on staffing and so you just don't have enough people to go around to serve the public.

Transportation can be affordable or even 'free' if we rethink the assumptions baked into our infrastructure and business models.

The Pay Up campaign, backed by over 20 civil society groups, calls for wealth taxes to avoid burdening the poor while transitioning to a sustainable economy.

Despite concerns from regulators regarding its financial situation, Affinity Water has doubled the pay of its chief executive, Keith Haslett, to 1.6 million for the 2024-25 financial year, up from 709,000 the prior year.

Oxfordshire County Council has successfully fulfilled its GigaHubs initiative to enhance digital connectivity across 192 of the county's rural and public service sites.

Young people living in the most deprived stretches of England's coastline are three times more likely to be living with an undiagnosed mental health condition than their peers inland.

Britain is characterized by an overwhelming sense of disarray, where everyday essentials become increasingly expensive while public services falter, leaving citizens frustrated.

Under the circumstances there are no good options.

"The goal is to create additional capacity to fund services, infrastructure and other needs that aren't included in this budget," Lee said at the meeting.

For the first time in history, the Miami-Dade Tax Collector's Office will open a permanent location in the City of Coral Gables.

The Resolution Foundation warned that Reeves could be forced into further tax increases to maintain higher levels of spending, emphasizing the need for fiscal caution.

'The budget is legally balanced, but the town has a structural imbalance which will grow if not addressed,' Constantin said.

The federal government has made little progress in getting rid of underused office space and must do more to halve its portfolio over the next decade.

The revelation comes after the Treasury was forced to impose a squeezed budget on the Home Office after a row over the settlement, impacting key services.

The government has pledged to increase defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP within the next two years.

Parents at Cypress Primary have shared their concerns with me about the proposed cuts to their lollipop man, and they are rightly concerned that this will have an impact on their children's safety.