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Local lass
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 Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: So do you mind. |
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in the gazette there is a article telling us that the people in calne will have a 15% rise in council tax due to the sports center re opening.as the council have given them money.
does this change your veiw of it reopening?
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rosco
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: So do you mind. |
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| Local lass wrote: | in the gazette there is a article telling us that the people in calne will have a 15% rise in council tax due to the sports center re opening.as the council have given them money.
does this change your veiw of it reopening? |
I'd understood that the whole idea of it reopening was that it was being privately funded: are Calne people that have contributed to help it open now paying twice?
It does seem a very big hike just for that, are there not other issues in the town that need sorting? |
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Top Dog
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I remember quite a few years ago when they closed the old libary and they issued a questionaire on what you would like there insted.Most put the heritage centre.If i remember after that was opened we had a big increase. :?
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I would object to paying for a service I wasn't using. |
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Local lass
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Its a bit of a cheeck when it is ment to be privately run and yet the calne people will still have to pay for it like it or not. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: So do you mind. |
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| Local lass wrote: | in the gazette there is a article telling us that the people in calne will have a 15% rise in council tax due to the sports center re opening.as the council have given them money.
does this change your veiw of it reopening? |
That's made me angry
stupid council
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Local lass
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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so what will happen when woolworths go up will there be a hike again?
i dont begrudge the money for the sports center what i begrudge is how the council have done it  |
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| Each year when you receive your council tax bill you are sent a breakdown of how the money is spent and if my memory serves me well about 66% goes to the Wiltshire County Council and less than 10% to the Calne Town Council. Now for there to be a 15% increase in council tax solely because of the Leisure Centre, a town council funded project, alledgedly, the Town Council portion of the council tax would have to increase by over 150% which I'm sure cannot be correct. It is more likely to be a 15% increase in the Calne Town Council portion of the council tax which works out as an overall increase of less than 1.5%. Interesting how figures can be presented in totally different lights depending how you say it. |
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iamelliot
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| you can prove anything with facts :p |
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