Shropshire Council will tell the new Government that short-term financial survival is its main aim - after ministers demanded to hear how the authority plans to make savings.
The authority will ask for a return to multi-year financial settlements to help it plan for the future when it responds to a request made earlier this year by then Minister for Local Government, Simon Hoare MP.
In response the authority will ask the incoming national government to revise the national funding system for local government with"greater alignment to local demand", along with a return to multi-year funding settlements for local councils. However, the Labour government outlined its ambition to return to multi-year settlements as a manifesto commitment, although no time-scales have yet been published.
"Our short-term priority is simple: financial survival. We have the greatest financial challenge we have ever faced as a council in the current financial year, delivering £62.5m recurrent savings leaving a net budget of £262m," said the report by council chief executive Andy Begley.
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