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Brighton and Hove Council leader calls for business support to tackle cuts

Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council has launched The City Innovation Challenge today, asking business and residents for innovative ideas to save money and generate income to fund services.

Leader of the council, Cllr Warren Morgan, said: “I’m looking for bold and creative suggestions as to how the city council can bring in new revenue to fund services and invest in our city and its communities. I know that there is the talent, imagination and innovation in this city to overcome the challenges we face and find new ways of making Brighton and Hove better.

“The council is already innovating, making savings and adapting to delivering services in a different way and this challenge seeks to take things further. Our Libraries Extra trial is a good example of this. Through this trial registered library users in Woodingdean and Portslade can use their local library outside the regular opening hours when they can browse the shelves, borrow books and use the computers without any staff being present.”

The City Innovation Challenges is promising a cash prize of £1,000 for successful ideas. All prizes are sponsored by partners.

The council is facing unprecedented cuts in funding from government, meaning it will have to review services are delivered. The council needs to save around £68m and the budget proposals for 2016/17 outline how initial savings plans.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .