Residents in Perth and Kinross will see their council tax bills increase by 4.28 per cent from April after the 2020/21 budget was passed this afternoon (Friday, March 6).
But proposed cuts to the winter maintenance budget and funding for parent councils will be scrapped.Some crossing patrollers facing the axe have also been saved, but only where there is "no safe alternative".Swimming lessons in primary school will continue to be free while a proposed increase to music instrumental fees has also been removed from the spending package.Perth and Kinross councillors gathered at 2 High Street to set the council's revenue budget of over £370 million.The Conservative administration struck a deal with the three Liberal Democrat councillors
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