For the last few years, I have approached December with a sense of trepidation. It is not that I don’t enjoy the festive season, far from it. It is the time of year when the local government settlement is announced.
All thoughts of merriment are put on hold as we begin the painful process of working out how we pay for vital services which are experiencing rapidly increasingly demand, all with a fast-depleting pot of money.
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