SWINDON BOROUGH COUNCIL AGENDA

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Recommendations from the Community Governance Review Council Date: 10 th November 2016 3.44 For all transferring pension liabilities, the Borough Council will pay upfront any deficit value within the existing pension fund as at the transfer date so that any transferring staff are fully funded on their first day of employment with their new employer 3.45 The parish council, or new employer, will meet the cost of its future employers pension on-costs recommended by the Local Government Pension Fund actuary. By doing this, the fund should remain fully funded and there should be no deficit liabilities for the parish in future. Future Redundancy Costs 3.46 The Borough Council will under-write any severance costs (including pension and redundancy payments) up to the value as at the service commencement date by the parish council. In effect, this would mean that if liabilities arose for an employee with 20 years’ service, two years after the parish service commencement date, the Borough Council would meet 18/20ths of the pension and redundancy costs. 3.47 The programme is being managed to try to prevent compulsory redundancies but, should any staff take voluntary or compulsory redundancy prior or on the service commencement date, the severance costs would be met by the Borough Council in full prior to the transfer. Council Tax Support 3.48 As part of the engagement and consultation processes, a number of questions have arisen over the cost of Council Tax Support and the impact of this on other residents in parished areas with higher numbers of households in receipt of this reduction. 3.49 In overall terms, around 10% of the cost of Council Tax is met from Council Tax Support and this has been factored into the financial modelling around likely future income levels and savings for Swindon Borough Council. Financial modelling has also been undertaken to show the potential impact on Council Tax bills of new parishes that could be established within the proposed boundaries. This modelling takes into account the potential expenditure levels of the proposed new parishes, the household numbers and bandings and the levels of Council Tax Support and other discounts and exemptions in place. The modelling does not show any material differences between the likely increases in Council Tax bills for those parishes containing higher level of households in receipt of Council Tax Support and those with lower levels. This tends to be because they are often more heavily populated areas so the cost of services is spread across a larger number of households. 3.50 Parish Council receive a grant from the Borough Council towards the cost of Council Tax Support and this grant is proportionate to the amount paid out in Further information on the subject of this report can be obtained from Stephen Taylor, 01793 463012, staylor@swindon.gov.uk. Page 24
Recommendations from the Community Governance Review Council Date: 10 th November 2016 each area. Therefore, those parishes with higher levels of deprivation will receive a larger grant than other areas. In addition, the Council Tax calculations take into account this grant and ensure that sufficient Council Tax is raised to cover the cost of services within an area after taking into account any discounts and exemptions in place for some households. Council Tax Capping / Referendum Criteria 3.51 At the present time, parish councils are not restricted over the levels of annual council tax increases. However, during the last few years, articles have been published that suggest that capping could be considered in future for the largest parish councils in the Country. 3.52 In response to this, the Government has included as part of its consultation on the 2017-18 Local Government Settlement some proposals to restrict large increases in parish council precepts. As extract from the consultation is set out below. 3.53 “We propose that referendum principles are introduced for local precepting authorities (town and parish councils) whose Band D precept is higher than that of the lowest charging district council for 2016/17 (£75.46), and which have a total precept for 2016/17 of at least £500,000 (subject to the next paragraph). These parishes would face the same referendum principles as shire districts: increases of less than 2% or up to and including £5 (whichever is higher) can be set without triggering a referendum. Based on these thresholds, the Government expects this new principle will affect around 120 of England’s 8,800 local precepting parishes. In doing this, the Government wishes to ensure that parishes continue to have the flexibility to take on responsibilities from other tiers of local government without being unduly constrained by council tax referendum principles. It is therefore proposed that parishes will not be in the category to which the referendum principle applies where there has been a transfer of responsibilities, and where three conditions are satisfied: i. the parish council and a principal council covering the area of the parish council have each resolved that a particular function carried out by the principal council in relation to the parish council’s area in the financial year 2016-17 is to be carried out instead by the parish council in the financial year 2017-18 ii. the parish council and the principal council have agreed the reasonable cost of the exercise of that particular function in the parish council’s area by the parish council in the financial year 2017-18 iii. that the agreed cost, if collected by way of the parish council precept, would take the parish council over the threshold of a 2% or £5 increase on the previous year. Further information on the subject of this report can be obtained from Stephen Taylor, 01793 463012, staylor@swindon.gov.uk. Page 25
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