Oxford city councillors are currently debating pushing through an inflation-busting 4.5 per cent increase in council tax.
The ruling minority Labour administration and the Greens have both tabled 4.5 per cent increases in the city’s share of the final bill in April, while the Liberal Democrats tabled a proposal for an increase of two per cent.
Forty four councillors are present at tonight’s crunch budget-setting meeting at the Town Hall — 22 Labour and 22 opposition councillors.
Two Independent Working Class Association councillors failed to show up and one Liberal Democrat councillor was sick, which in the event of a tied vote leaves the casting vote with Lord Mayor and Labour councillor Susanna Pressel.
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