Budget Engagement Exercise for 2024/25

We asked

We asked people across Aberdeenshire to tell us which 5 services were most important to them now and in the future. We also asked where we should focus attention on transforming our business and which services people would like to have a greater say in shaping and designing.

You said

Around 4000 people shared their thoughts. The top 5 services identified were:

• Education
• Roads
• Waste
• Leisure and Culture
• Care
  

Most support for transforming our business was around Buildings and Estate and Transport. However, the results from the survey alone should not be considered representative of the whole of Aberdeenshire as explained in our report.

We will

A report summarising the results from the engagement exercise was shared with Councillors on 23 November 2023. You can read the full report here. The report will be used by Councillors to help set the budget for 2024/25, which will be set early next year (February 2024).