Mr Jim Kenyon (Chair of Independent Hemsworth Town Council) promised alongside his Independent Candidates in their manifestos back in 2019:
“When elected we will reduce your precept by over £200,000”
At the Finance Meeting held on 20 January 2022, Mr Alan Draper, Clerk Independent Hemsworth Town Council stated that the Precept would need to INCREASE by £53,212 in the upcoming year, just to “stand still”
Luckily for Independent Hemsworth Town Council (and us) there has been an increase in the number of households in the Township paying towards the Precept which totals £18,999 and they will also have to use £34,213 of our reserves to ensure the Precept levied will remain unchanged.
However:
The Precept in 2019 under Labour: £730,000
The Precept in 2020 under Independents: £749,386
The Precept in 2021 under Independents: £758,888
The Precept in 2022 under Independents: £758,888
So, In 2019 we were promised a Precept by the Independents of £530,000 if they were elected.
Since 2019 we have actually paid an ADDITIONAL £677,162 to Independent Hemsworth Town Council in Precept.
Just where has all this additional money gone Mr Kenyon?
No prizes awarded for correct guesses where the money has gone but perhaps a prize could be awarded if anyone correctly guesses the excuse that Kenyon uses to explain why it’s not his fault…..again, so long as it’s new one and not one of the worn out old ones. That’s if him and his cronies dare show there faces.
Who actually suggested that they keep the Precept the same this year using money they had saved and not add the inflation
Bet it wasn’t Kenyon who wanted to spend money they had in the bank to not hike it this year bet its burning a hole in his pocket that money
I can see a lift coming to the park that he so desperately wants and that bloody walk in freezer Mrs Eccles wants and there’s probably a few more machines that someone needs to sell
Let’s see what that money gets spent on eh
In 2019 when the independents came to power there was over £480,000 in reserves held by the former council by August 2021 there was £314,000 what exactly was that money spent on its a lot of money to spend with nothing to show for it except some aging machines losing their value