Barrow Borough Council Key Priorites 2011-2015
Overview
The Borough Council’s Key Priorities provide structured management and direction of its efforts and resources. We are currently faced with massive withdrawal of central government grant and the Council must reorganise itself into a leaner organisation which focuses on only the most significant strategic issues. We have therefore revised or key priorities to reflect the current economic reality, and are now consulting on these new Key Priorities.
Why we are consulting
The Council’s main objective must be to achieve a balanced budget and our overall priority must be to establish an effective and responsible deficit reduction strategy.
Revising our Key Priorities must give recognition to this, but it must also give scope to direct any surplus capacity, including capital resources which remain relatively strong, to the most urgent and important issues in the Borough. To this end we have identified the key issues as:
· Efficiency
· Housing
· The built environment
· The local economy
These four Key Priorities will be used as the basis for all future business planning and to direct the activity of any spare capacity and resources.
The Council welcomes your views on whether these are the right Key Priorities for the Borough.
