I WAS concerned to read that budget difficulties could mean cuts to council services next year.

Didn't Coun Galloway see this coming when he set the budget last year, and weren't his major increases in spending then rather short-sighted in the circumstances?

We citizens of York are now faced with Coun Galloway's frantic attempts to raise money, measures which create more problems than they solve, particularly the panic policy of obtaining revenue from those draconian parking charges.

Dorothy Greenwell,

Redman Close,

York.

Updated: 10:17 Monday, October 25, 2004