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I suggest that we also have some contingency for mailing in our bid for civic participation funding, so that we can involve as many organisations as possible. If we agree to put in a bid for around £6,000 to the conveners liaison group, the clerks will be able to build up that bid for 5 October.
The inclusion of percentages clarifies the accounts, which tend to have many large numbers. People understand percentage changes more easily than they do a comparison between £897 million this year with £769 million last year, for example.
Finally, given that, as annex 1 of finance circular 08/2004 points out, £6 million has been allocated for councillors' severance payments, how many councillors will receive such a payment and, of them, how many will be Labour councillors?