Changes to Ward Committee funding threatens salt bin provision in the Ward reports Lib Dem Councillor Ann Reid.

“Ward Committees are no longer able to fund salt bin provision but no one seems to know what will happen to them in the future.” In order to save money the salt bins are being left out all year but no one has made a decision about refilling them with salt come the winter.

“The 180 bins funded by the Highways Department will continue to be filled and Residents Associations can also decide to fund bins” says Ann “but the 25 funded by the Ward Committee in Dringhouses and Woodthorpe might well remain empty because no one thought about the consequences of cutting Ward Budgets.”