Sentence examples for minimum council from inspiring English sources

Nearly three quarters (72%) of local authorities in England are imposing a minimum council tax payment from next month, after government cut council funding to help needy households with their bills.

And the postgraduate research students using the new facilities will also be better off--the minimum research council stipend is set to rise to £9000 by 2003.

If the petitions meet the 10% minimum, the council must either repeal the law or call a special election no more than 103 days after its reconsideration.

Ultimately, Mr. Bloomberg must persuade a minimum of 26 council members to see things his way; the majority of the Council usually votes in lock step with its speaker, Gifford Miller, who has been less than outspoken about his stand on the measure.

The move will create a minimum wage for council staff of £5.33 an hour from next April - more than £1 more than the government's national minimum.

School levies, minimum wages, city council elections – these votes have a real and almost immediate impact on your life and the lives of your community.

Jim McKenzie of the CAB in Plymouth said: "Most people now have to pay a minimum amount of council tax.

As city lawmakers congratulated themselves on raising the minimum wage, some council members were circumspect, saying the effects of their plan aren't easy to predict.

His "policy options" include raising the minimum wage, freeing councils to set their own taxes and reversing the 40,000 job losses across councils.

It comes just two years after 24 out of 33 London councils imposed minimum charges after the government cut council tax benefit.

According to initial calculations by the Local Government Association, indemnifying care contractors against the new minimum would cost councils in England an extra £330m next year, rising to £1bn extra by 2020.