DAILY PARKING STAYS AT FOUR EURO AND COMMERCIAL INCREASE HOLDS

Date Published: 04-Dec-2007

The daily parking rate for the city is to stay at 4 euro next year and the full waiver is to stay in place for bin charges

After 6 hours of trading insults and trading figures, councillors unanimously agreed the 2008 budget for the city, making the necessary savings of one million euro and making history by doing it all in one meeting

Cllrs managed to hold the commercial rate increase at the same as last year at 3.8 per cent and to give the Arts in Galway extra funding of approximately 70 thousand euro

However the hourly parking rate does go up from 2 euro to 2 euro 40.

The commercial rate increases by 3.8 per cent instead of 4.5 per cent as proposed by the officials

The full waiver for bin charges remains in place for low income families