Tonight I was pleased to move the adoption of the 2020-21
Council Budget, Council Plan and Long-Term Financial Plan (2020-21 to 2029-30).
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures, and
Council’s 2020-21 draft budget is certainly a budget unlike any other. Council
has implemented many initiatives to support our residents, ratepayers and our
business community through this COVID-19 pandemic. This budget will build on
those initiatives and further increase the level of support as we move through
the remainder of 2020 and into 2021.
This budget has been developed around supporting the
community recover from the COVID-19 pandemic by assisting all community
members, including assisting property owners with rates.
Our plan, through delivering this budget, proposes a two
per cent rate rise in line with the State Government rate cap. To help ease the
financial burden for our ratepayers, we are also proposing to return a total of
$3.3 million back to ratepayers whose rates have increased compared to 2019-20
assessments, as part of our ‘Covid-19 Rates Relief Assistance’ package.
To put it simply,
this means that you won't pay any more in general rates than you did last year,
and some households will pay less.
This is in addition to the $4m Recovery Fund, taking the
COVID relief support to approximately $7.3 million in 2020-21.
In addition to focusing on providing relief to the community due to COVID-19, this budget will also continue to deliver on the over 120 services and initiatives that are contained in the 2017-2021 Council Plan and Capital Expenditure Program.
Agenda available @ https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Council/Council-meetings/Minutes-and-agendas #ManagingThisTogether
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