Donegal County Council is to increase its budget by 6% to more than €154,400,000 for 2020.
The council will meet today to discuss the budget for the year ahead with an increase in spending of more than €8M on last year’s figure sought.
The council’s CEO Seamus Neely will outline the council’s plan for the spend and where the money will come from.
A draft budget plans shows that €118,576,123 of the budget needed will come from Local Property Tax, rents, fees, charges, loan repayments, grants and certain reserves.
The council has also outlined where it plans to spend the budget in the coming year.
A total of €20,649,032 will go on housing a building but more than double this, €48,199,128 will go on road transport and safety.
The council does not propose to commercial rates on top of the rate revaluation which will not start until 2022.
The wage bill for the council for 2020 is coming in at just over €72m.
