Suffolk 2017 ~ The Liberal Democrat budget plans for Suffolk

Over the last four years the Conservatives on the Council have stockpiled £40 million of taxpayers' money and squirrelled it away into reserves. While the Liberal Democrats accept that a certain level of reserves is necessary for us to save in case of an emergency or disaster, the Tories have taken this too far.

Liberal Democrats will invest from reserves, allowing us to both keep council tax rises to a minimum, and also to make the following spending commitments:

• £5m to protect vital social care services from government cuts
• £1m to attract further funding to invest in infrastructure that encourages more housing to be built
• £1m allocated to a countywide mental health and wellbeing investment in schools
• £2m into a "Pot Hole Pot" to fix our crumbling highways and pavements
• £600,000 to subsidise bus services including park and ride services to make them more frequent
• £400,000 to protect our libraries and help them provide more for local people

A Manifesto for Suffolk 2017: An open, tolerant, happy place to live, learn and work, by Suffolk Liberal Democrats, launched in March 2017.