At a glance – today's new Wolverhampton City Council cuts are revealed

Here is a summary of what had already been put forward before today's cuts were announced:

• Central Baths: The swimming pool is facing the loss of a £316,000 a year subsidy from the council. There are fears that it would close altogether without it. Council bosses say they are doing ‘considerable work’ to try to run it without a subsidy, so that it makes enough money for itself along with other leisure centres in Bilston and Wednesfield. A new business model is set to be unveiled next month. More than 6,000 people have petitioned to save the baths from closure.

• Bantock House: The popular museum is also facing budget cuts and there were concerns that it too could close. However, the city council has stressed it is not planning to shut Bantock House, nor the main Wolverhampton Art Gallery or Bilston Craft Gallery. Today it pledged to try to get them to raise more money, through selling gifts in their shops and being run more like businesses.

• Libraries: Sites across the city are facing dramatic cuts to their opening hours. Some, such as Whitmore Reans Library, would go from opening six days a week to just 15 hours. Those cuts will still come into effect from April. The council is trying to recruit an army of volunteers to train up and help to keep the libraries open for longer. The council will also charge people for internet use in libraries.

• School meals: The cost of them is likely to rise. The council is planning to charge schools a further 8p per meal. It currently suggests schools charge parents £2.10 per dinner. But schools will be able to decide for themselves whether or not to pass on the charge to parents. If they choose not to, they will have to absorb the cost within their own budgets.

• Neighbourhood wardens: These are staff who go around the streets dealing with residents’ concerns and assisting the police. Their numbers will be cut with a planned reduction from 30 to 18. There were originally plans to cut them back by a further three but the council relented following campaigns.

• Voluntary groups: Organisations across the city such as Central Youth Theatre and Wildside Activity Centre along with 11 others, are set to lose their funding, saving £1.6 million. The move was put on hold last month for a review following high profile campaigns to get the council to change its mind and the authority is still trying to help them find ways to find other funding.

• Youth centres: Sites in Wolverhampton still facing being closed, with services transferred to a planned £6 million Youth Zone, set to be built on land off Worcester Street and School Street in the city centre. The council says ‘a sum of money’ will be provided so that voluntary and community groups can carry on providing services. Altogether 10 youth clubs will no longer be run by the council, while the rest will close a further four weeks a year in a bid to save £750,000 over two years. The number of youth club sessions offered each week will drop from 56 to 54,. The council intends to make more use of community groups and churches by offering grants worth a total of £40,000 to make up for the loss of services. Up to 28 posts will be lost under changes.

• Play areas: Cuts being proposed include saving £25,000 by ‘rationalising’ 100 children’s play areas.

New Wolverhampton City Council cuts announced today and going out to consultation include:

• Job losses : The number of posts going has been increased from 1,400 to 2,000, a third of the workforce.

• Pay and conditions: Staff will not get annual pay rises and full-time workers will see their weekly contracts cut from 37 hours to 35 hours, meaning a pay cut for thousands of people.

• It follows cuts of more than 600 jobs since 2010.

• Staff will not be paid for the first day they are off sick. Flexi-leave, where staff take time off for hours they work over their contracted time, will stop. All staff will be stopped from claiming overtime for working weekends. Staff will instead have their contracts changed so they are expected to work five out of seven days, with only a day off in lieu for working at weekends.

• Mileage: Staff mileage allowances for people using their cars on council business to be cut from 45p to 25p.

• Council tax: It will rise by 1.99 per cent, the absolute maximum that the Government will allow a local authority to impose without holding a referendum. The move will add between £17.90 and £53.70 a year to people’s bills. Imposing the increase means Wolverhampton City Council effectively throws away the offer of a grant from Central Government worth the equivalent of a one per cent rise, which was available only if the rates stayed the same. Instead it can raise £1.6 million more in council tax by imposing the increase. This will be the first increase in council tax since 2009 in Wolverhampton. Councils were told last year that they would have to hold a referendum if they plan to increase bills by more than two per cent. No council has yet held such a referendum, which would potentially cost the authority potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds and run the risk that voters will reject the idea.

• Council tax support: Further cuts to the support for people to cover council tax bills. Cuts have already been imposed requiring working age people on benefits to pay some of their council tax. Last year they were told they would have to pay at least 8.5 per cent of their council tax bill, when previously council tax benefit covered it all. Today it was announced that ‘eligible people will have to pay more towards their council tax bills’.

• Cameras: They will be introduced to catch drivers using bus lanes illegally. The measure has been brought in in Birmingham and has proved controversial. Wolverhampton City Council expects to swell its coffers by £250,000 in one year by using cameras along the A449 Stafford Road, Willenhall Road and others to catch people who flout the rules. The measure comes despite calls from business leaders to scrap some bus lanes altogether.

• Graffiti: Businesses will be expected to pay to have graffiti removed from their premises. Currently the council picks up the cost free of charge.

• Christmas lights: The budget for Christmas lights will be cut by half to £50,000. Originally there were plans to cut it by £25,000.

• Outdoor events: A £20,000 cut to the outdoor events programme, meaning one or two events would need private sponsors. The council is warning that some ‘expensive’ events ‘would either be stopped or significantly scaled back’. The council’s outdoor events management team will also be asked to start selling their services to private organisers to raise funds for the authority. It has not been revealed which events are facing cuts. Country music festival Wolvestock is now charging admission having previously been free.