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The Executive Member for Financial Sustainability presented the Council Tax Setting Report for 2026/27. The report brought together all elements of the final council tax bill, including local precepts, the County Council and the Police and Crime Commissioner and calculated the total council tax for each parish and town, as set out in Appendix A.

Councillor Brittain, the Executive Member for Financial Sustainability proposed that the recommendations in the report be supported. Councillor Goldspink seconded the proposal.

Members noted that, had an alternative budget proposal been accepted, different council tax figures would have been reached. However, there was no objection to the report and Members accepted the calculations as presented.

The motion to support the recommendation having been proposed and seconded was put to a recorded vote and the result was as follows:

FOR

Councillors Boylan, Brittain, E Buckmaster, R Buckmaster, Burt, Butcher, Carter, Clements, Connolly, Copley, Cox, Crystall, Daar, Deering, Deffley, Devonshire, Dumont, Dunlop, Glover-Ward, Goldspink, Hopewell, Holt, Horner, Hoskin, Jacobs, Marlow, McAndrew, Nicholls, Parsad-Wyatt, Redfern, V Smith, Stowe, Swainston, Thomas, Townsend, Watson, Willcocks, Williams, Wilson, Woollcombe, Wyllie.

AGAINST

None.

ABSTAIN

Councillor Adams, T Smith.

For: 41

Against: 0

Abstained: 2

RESOLVED – that (A) the Council Tax resolution, as submitted at Appendix A, be approved.

(B) the local precepts as set out at Appendix A be noted.

(C) the Hertfordshire County Council and Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire precepts be noted.