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The members of Mayo County Council are to fund their own study trips in the future it was agreed at the June monthly meeting of the local authority.

Although a draft capital budget has been drawn up and presented to the members of Kilkenny County Council for the county’s capital expenditure for 2011 - 2013 the county manager Joe Crockett has warned, ‘we have to assume that a lot of this plan will not go ahead’.

The issue of the amount of money owed by central Government to Mayo County Council for works carried out by the council was raised again this week at the monthly meeting of Mayo County Council. Cllr Eugene Lavin brought up the issue asking Peter Duggan, head of finance for Mayo County Council, how much money was owed and how much the council had to pay in relation to interest charges on loans that it has had to take out to cover the debt.

Education about methods of water conservation could be one way of encouraging people to pay their water charges on time, it was suggested at this week’s meeting of Westmeath County Council.

Westmeath County Council has reduced its staff by 75, and is aiming to substantially reduce or eliminate all overtime in a bid to keep its payroll costs low.

Westmeath County Council has reduced its staff by 75, and is aiming to substantially reduce or eliminate all overtime in a bid to keep its payroll costs low.

The collection of commercial rates and water charges is continuing to prove difficult for Westmeath County Council, who are urging businesses to liaise with them if they are having difficulty meeting the payments.

Mayo County Council this year has paid out €200,000 in overdraft payments to a bank while it awaits a payment of €9 million from central government to pay for sanitary projects in the county. Head of finance for Mayo County Council Peter Duggan gave members the information this week when delivered a financial report on the council’s expenditures and incomes up to the end of September this year. At the meeting the members later approved the extension of the council’s overdraft facility up to €35 million to the end of 2011. The breakdown of the overdraft was €30 million for the capital programme and €5 million for the revenue account (day to day running costs).

Water charges for businesses in Mayo are set to increase by at least 11 per cent next year, Peter Duggan, head of finance for Mayo County Council, told councillors at the monthly meeting of the local authority. Mr Duggan was seeking approval for the raising of a €6.2 million loan to fund the council’s obligations under the polluter pays principle for three water services schemes in the county. The three schemes in question are Castlebar and environs scheme, which will cost the council €5.5 million, the Achill Sound sewerage scheme, costing €2.2 million, and the Kiltimagh sewerage scheme, which will cost the council €1 million.

Newly elected County Councillor Peter Flynn has told the management of Mayo County Council that hard decisions were going to have to be made by them in relation to staffing levels in the council as it continues to try to keep it’s books balanced. The Fine Gael Councillor was speaking after Mr Peter Duggan, head of finance for the council, gave the members a briefing on the finanical review of the council for the first nine months of the year at the monthly meeting last Monday.