Maidstone Borough Council 5 Maidstone Borough Council
Your services you decide
Budget Consultation
As you may remember Maidstone Borough Council undertook a consultation with residents and visitors on the Budget for 2017/18 during October and November 2016.
The theme for the event was ‘Your services, you decide’ and the primary focus for conducting the research was to:
identify which services we deliver are a priority to our residents.
and determine what approach to funding these services residents think we should take.
The results:
A total of 140 surveys were completed during the roadshows and a further 786 surveys were completed online. Overall rating of front facing services which are important
wanted to retain existing funding (‘Funding kept the same’) for the ten services. Household waste collection and disposal was the service which had the greatest support at 93%. Culture and tourism had the lowest proportion that said funding should be kept the same at 31%.
Reduce or cut funding? How was the survey distributed?
Paper copies available at 11 roadshows held throughout the borough
Online survey Consultation mailing list for residents signed up Social Media links to online survey
Household waste collection and disposal received the highest rating when residents were asked to place a list of ten services in order of importance with 7.33. Culture & Tourism received the lowest rating at 4.29.
Funding for each service should the council maintain current funding, reduce or cut?
Culture and Tourism have the greatest proportion of respondents overall that said funding should be reduced or cut altogether at 68%. This is made up of 14% that said cut all funding and 54% that it should be reduced.
Household Waste Collection and Disposal was rated as the most important service with minimal support for reducing or cutting funding for this service.
What happens next?
Each service committee will now be considering the results of the survey together with other information and deciding how the budget will be spent.
Policy and Resources Committee will be looking at the service committee recommendations during February and will make the final decision.
The graph above shows the proportion of respondents that
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