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Introduction

Our budget challenge

About you

Ideas to reduce the amount of money we spend 11

Education and schools

Social Services

Helping people who are very poor

Libraries 14

Library community service

Cultural services

Roads and Transport

Services for people

Parks 35

More about you

Thank you

For more information

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Introduction

Swansea Council has to make some difficult decisions about how it spends its money.

We don’t have enough money to do all the things we want.

We need to reduce the amount of money that we spend on some things.

Before we make any decisions we want to know what you think.

Please read through this document and then tell us what you think by answering the questions that start on page 8.

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Our budget challenge The budget is where we work out:

• How much money we have to spend

• How we plan to spend the money

How we get our money

Swansea Council gets money from:

• People and businesses paying council tax

• Money from the Government

The money that we have got from the government has gone down.

Over the last 3 years the government has given us £60 million less than we had before.

This year we will be getting £24 million less than we want.

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How we spend our money

The council spends money providing services to people in Swansea.

These services include:

• Schools and colleges

• Collecting waste and recycling

• Looking after the roads

• Supporting people who are old or vulnerable to live independently

• Keeping children safe

• Money towards the cost of buses

• Looking after the environment

• Sports centres

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Spending our money better

Over the last few years we have worked hard to spend our money better.

We have been making sure that we only spend money on things that are really important.

We have looked at ways that we can do more things with less money.

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The challenge now

Next year we will not have enough money to spend on the things that we think are important.

We will have to reduce spending on some important services, or find new ways to raise the money we need.

We will have to make some difficult decisions. Please help us and tell us what you think by answering the questions on the next pages.

Your answers will help us when we make the final decisions.

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About you Question 1: Are you…

A member of the public

A council worker

A councillor

Someone who works for a community organisation - please say which one

Someone who works for a company - please say which one

Question 2: Are you happy if we write your comments in a report or leaflet, where anyone can read them?

Yes I am happy if you write my comments in a report or leaflet, where anyone can read them

Question 3: What is your postcode?

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Question 4: Would you be happy to pay more for your services, rather than lose them?

Yes

No

Question 5: If you ticked ‘Yes’ - which services would you be happy to pay more for?

Question 6: Would you be happy if the council organised your services in a different way - rather than lose them?

Yes

No

Question 7: If you ticked ‘Yes’ - how would you like services to be organised differently?

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Question 8: We think that the most important things that we spend money on are:

• Supporting people who are old or vulnerable to live independently

• Schools and colleges

Do you agree or disagree?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 9: If you disagree, please tell us why

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Ideas to reduce the amount of money we spend

Education and schools

Question 10: Do you agree or disagree that the Music Service should raise some of its own money?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 11: If you disagree, please tell us why

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Social Services

Question 12a: Do you agree or disagree that we work to help people to be independent so they don’t need to ask for so much support from the council?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 12b: Do you agree or disagree that we should use people from other organisations to work out what support people need?

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

disagree

Question 13: If you disagree, please tell us why

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Helping people who are very poor

Question 14: We want to change the way we give money to community organisations.

Do you agree or disagree that we should only give money to community organisations that do work that the council thinks is important?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 15: If you disagree, please tell us why

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Libraries

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Central Library Do you agree or disagree that the Central Library should be open for fewer hours in the week?

We want it to be open:

• Between 9am and 7pm on Tuesdays to Fridays

• Between 10am and 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 17: If you disagree, please tell us why

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Do you agree or disagree that these libraries should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want it to be open:

• Between 9am and 6pm on Mondays to Fridays

• Between 10am and 4pm on Saturdays

• Closed on Sundays

Gorseinon Library

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Morriston Library

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

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Oystermouth Library

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 19: If you disagree with any of these, please tell us why

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Do you agree or disagree that these libraries should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want them to be open:

• Between 9am and 1pm, and 1:30pm to 5:30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays

• Between 10am and 1pm on Saturday

• Closed on Thursdays and Sundays

Clydach Library

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

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Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

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Brynhyfryd Library

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

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Killay Library

Do you agree or disagree that Killay Library should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want it to be open:

• Between 9am and 1pm, and 1:30pm to 5:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

• Between 10am and 1pm on Saturday

• Closed on Tuesdays and Sundays

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Do you agree or disagree that Pennardd Library should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want it to be open:

• Between 9am and 1pm, and 1:30pm to 5:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

• Between 9am and 12noon on Thursdays

• Between 10am and 1pm on Saturday

• Closed on Tuesdays and Sundays

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Question 21: If you disagree with the changes to the times for Clydach Library, Gowerton Library, Ponarddulais Library, Sketty Library, Brynhyfryd Library, Killay Library or Pennardd Library please tell us why

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• Between 9am and 1pm, and 1:30pm to 5:00pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

• Between 10am and 12:30pm on Saturday

• Closed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays

Fforestfach Library

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

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Penlan Library

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

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St Thomas Library Do you agree or disagree that St Thomas Library should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want them to be open:

• Between 9am and 1pm, and 1:30pm to 5:00pm on Mondays and Thursdays

• Between 9am and 12:30pm on Tuesdays

• Between 9am and 1pm on Fridays

• Between 10am and 12:30pm on Saturday

• Closed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Townhill Library

Do you agree or disagree that Townhill Library should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want them to be open:

• Between 9am and 12:30pm, and 1pm to 5:00pm on Mondays and Fridays

• Between 1am and 5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays

• Between 10am and 12:00pm on Saturday

• Closed on Wednesdays and Sundays

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Question 23: If you disagree with the changes to the times of Fforestfach Library, Penlan Library, St Thomas Library or Townhill Library, please tell us why

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Question 24. Do you agree or disagree that Llansamlet Library should be open for fewer hours in the week? We want them to be open:

• Between 9am and 1pm, and 2pm to 5:00pm on Tuesdays and Fridays

• Between 2pm and 5pm on Wednesdays

• Between 9am and 12:00pm on Saturday

• Closed on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Question 25: If you disagree with this change to the opening times of Llansamlet Library, please tell us why

Question 26: Are there any other ways that the council should arrange the opening times of libraries?

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Library Community service

We have been taking library books for free to:

• 47 care homes

• About 200 people who can’t get to a library

We can’t pay for this in the future. We must find another way of paying for this service, or the service will have to stop.

Question 27. Do you agree or disagree that the council should stop paying for a free library service to 47 care homes?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 28. Have you any other views?

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Question 29. Do you agree or disagree that the council should stop paying for a free library service to people who can’t get to a library?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 30. Have you any other views?

Question 31. How should we keep these services going?

Make people pay to use the service

Use volunteers to deliver and collect the books

Use other services to deliver and collect the books

Use community organisations to deliver and collect the books

Other - please say

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Cultural Services

The museum has three boats in Swansea Marina.

Question 32. Do you agree or disagree that we should get another museum to take over looking after these boats?

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 33: If you disagree, please tell us why

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Roads and transport

Do you agree or disagree with these ideas for saving money?

Question 34a. Having more Camera Cars by putting cameras in other council vehicles

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

disagree

Question 34b. Stopping paying for street lights on private roads

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

disagree

Question 34c. Charging caravans and motor homes for parking at the Boatyard

Agree strongly Agree Disagree Strongly

disagree

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Question 34d. Charging for parking in the council car parks

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 35: If you disagree with any of these, please tell us why

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Do you agree or disagree with these ideas for saving money?

Question 36a. Increasing the charges for funeral services

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 36b. Increasing the charges for registering births and deaths

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

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Question 36b. Increasing the money we get from making sure businesses are fair to customers

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 37: If you disagree with any of these, please tell us why

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Question 38: Looking for another organisation to take over running the Botanical Gardens

Agree Strongly Agree Disagree strongly disagree

Question 39: If you disagree with this, please tell us why

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Any other comments

Question 40: If you have any other comments please write them here

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More about you Please answer these questions about yourself. Your answers will help us to be sure we are getting the views of all the different communities of people in Swansea.

We will keep your personal information private and safe as we must by law.

Question 41: Are you…

Male Female

Question 42: Is your gender the same as when you were born?

Yes No

Question 43: How old are you?

Under 16 56 - 65

16 - 25 66 - 75

26 - 35 76 - 85

36 - 45 over 85

46 - 55 Prefer not to say

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Welsh

English

Irish

Scottish

Question 45: Are you…

White - British

Other British

Not British

Gypsy or Traveller

Refugee or asylum seeker

Any other White background. Please say

Mixed - White & Black Caribbean

Mixed - White & Black African

Mixed - White & Asian

Any other Mixed background. Please say

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Black or Black British - African

Any other Black background. Please say

Chinese

Other - please say

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Christian

Buddhist

Hindu

Jewish

Muslim

Sikh

Other - please say

Question 47: Do you take part in your religion regularly?

Yes No

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Bisexual - someone who is attracted to both men and women

Gay/ Lesbian - someone who is attracted to the same sex

Heterosexual - someone who is attracted to the opposite sex

Prefer not to say

Other - please say

Question 49: Can you…

Understand spoken Welsh

Speak Welsh

Read Welsh

Write Welsh

Are you learning Welsh?

None of these

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Question 50: Which language do you use from day to day?

English

Welsh

Other - please say

Question 50: Do you have you a long lasting illness or disability?

Yes No

Question 51: Does this illness stop you from doing things in your everyday life?

Yes No

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Thank you Thank you for telling us what you think.

Please now send us your answers back to:

Email: [email protected]

Post: Consultation Gloucester Room Guildhall Swansea SA1 4PE

Your answers will help the council when it decides what to do.

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