Residents to feel pain of a "disgraceful" decision to cut a £900,000 community grant scheme, meeting told - Hambleton Today

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Residents to feel pain of a "disgraceful" decision to cut a £900,000 community grant scheme, meeting told - Hambleton Today

Residents will feel the pain of a “disgraceful” decision to cut a £900,000 community grant scheme in half, councillors were warned today. Members of North Yorkshire Council have agreed to reduce the amount given to individual councillors to distribute in their areas from £10,000 to £5,000 a year. The reduction in the locality budgets was voted through despite opposition councillors claiming the move would cause damage to a range of community gro…