The meeting is expected to finalise a raft of proposed savings totalling more than £14 million the Labour-run authority says is necessary to start plugging a £40 million black hole in council finances.
Among the cuts proposed is a £300,000 reduction in the council’s contractual funding for Explore York libraries and archives in the year starting in April – followed by a further £300,000 cut the following year.
York’s opposition Liberal Democrats have proposed an ‘alternative budget’ in which they insist those cuts to library services are not necessary.
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