Public services, including leisure, environmental health, activity centres and CCTV, could be given the chop by Colchester Council
A range of services have ended up in the firing line because they do not meet the priorities of the council, laid out in the recently approved strategic plan.
The strategic plan was drawn up after talks with taxpayers and businesses.
It puts economic prosperity, beating deprivation, ensuring quality of life expected in a prestige town and making Colchester the cleanest and greenest borough in the country at the top of the agenda.
Environmental health, leisure services, activity centres, twinning, the Youth Games and CCTV each face either large financial cutbacks or being axed.
And the cash savings made will be pumped into the council's new priority areas street cleaning, public toilets, enterprise and social inclusion and community support.
Council chiefs today confirmed that job cuts might form part of plans to achieve the service cuts
Nick Taylor, resources portfolio holder, said: "We realised from the start it was going to be a difficult process. We've had several meetings to come up with which services fit into which categories. This is the beginning of the process."
Published Monday August 12, 2002
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