Around 700 more jobs could be cut at Leicestershire County Council over the next four years, as the town hall looks to save £120m.
Budget plans could see the local authority cutting £25.6m from its adult and communities budget and £13.3m from children and families services.
Proposals due to be put out to consultation on Wednesday will leave Leicestershire with £9m of cuts still to find over 2018/19. The local authority has already found £103m of savings over the past five years.
Despite four years of council tax freezes, Leicestershire is now proposing an annual 1.5% rise until 2019.
The reduction of 700 full time equivalent posts will come on top of 600 redundancies that have already taken place at the town hall. However, Leicestershire anticipates the latest wave of job losses will not be entirely made up of compulsory redundancies.
Council leader Nick Rushton said the ongoing austerity 'will mean very tough decisions, unless we receive extra Government grant'.
'We are the lowest funded county council - if we received the average level, we'd get an extra £37m per year,' he added.
Further savings include cutting £3.6m from the chief executive's department and £23.5m from environment and transport.
The council cabinet will consider the plans on 11 December, before releasing them for public consultation. A final decision will be taken by the full council on February 18th.
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