Council tax bills for people in Norfolk will go up by 4.99pc, while £42m of cuts and savings will go ahead, after County Hall agreed its budget.
Conservative-controlled Norfolk County Council voted to increase its share of the council tax by the maximum possible without a referendum, adding almost £80 a year to a Band D property.
The agreed £528m net budget - an increase on last year - will also see £42m of cuts and savings made at County Hall, with council leader Kay Mason Billig saying "difficult choices" had to be made.
While consultation on a number of those proposals continues and final decisions are due in the months ahead, council leaders have been clear that if they are not made, savings will need to be found elsewhere.
Contentious proposals include the council reducing the minimum income guarantee (MIG) for people with disabilities, to to save £1.2m each year.
The MIG is an amount of income disabled people aged 18 to 64 can keep for everyday expenses after the cost of council-arranged home care is taken into account.
Reducing it effectively means people will have to pay more for their care, with the council proposing to lower it from £187 a week to £171.25 a week.
Other controversial proposals are to shut recycling centres on Wednesdays and to introduce a booking system, to save £400,000 a year, while a thousand street lights could be switched off to save up to £200,000 a year and cut carbon.
Brian Watkins, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat group, tabled an amendment calling for the MIG reduction proposal to be scrapped.
Labour supported that, with councillor Brenda Jones saying: "Picking the pockets of the vulnerable is not the way".
But that call was defeated, with Andrew Jamieson, the council's cabinet member for finance, saying budgets for future years "remain daunting".
He said: "That is why we want sustainable savings, not one-off populist gestures."
Labour proposed a shake-up to the care system in Norfolk, including that the council should help provide up to 1,000 homes to be rented to care workers to tackle a recruitment crisis.
That amendment was not passed.
Independent councillor Alexandra Kemp’s amendment, which called for the council to provide £100,000 to safeguard the future of the West Norfolk Carers charity, was also rejected.
So too, was one from independent councillor Maxine Webb, which included calls for extra money for short breaks for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
At the end of a meeting which lasted for four and a half hours, the budget was passed by 42 votes to 20, with two abstentions.
After the meeting, a spokeswoman for the Disability Network Norfolk Group hit out at plans to push ahead with the MIG reduction consultation.
She said: "We believe this to be an expensive and wholly unnecessary process based on a choice made by the cabinet and voted for by Conservative members.
"It will mean that disabled people will be around 10pc or 20pc worse off each week, depending on their age, forcing many more into debt or living miserable, locked down lives."
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOUR COUNCIL TAX?
Council tax bills are made up of portions which go to the county council, city, district or borough councils and the police and crime commissioner. Some areas also pay precepts to town and parish councils.
All authorities are setting their council tax in the days ahead, but Norfolk's share will increase by 4,99pc.
Of County Hall's share, 2.99pc goes into the general coffers and 2pc is ring-fenced for adult social care.
It will mean people in each band will pay this much to the county council in the coming year:
Band A: £1,114.74
Band B: £1,300.53
Band C: £1,486.32
Band D: £1,672.11
Band E: £2,043.69
Band F: £2,415.27
Band G: £2,786.85
Band H: £3,344.22
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