What your rates pay for
Putting your rates to good use
- Rates help to fund a wide range of services, facilities and programs in your local community.
- Rates make up around 63% of our operating revenue.
- To see our planned spending for this financial year view our current budget
Services we provide
Some of the services we provide on an ongoing basis include:
- bridges, roads and footpath construction and maintenance
- drains
- household rubbish collection and disposal
- kerbside recycling collection
- hard and green waste collections
- public lighting
- parks
- planning and building services including control of land use planning, processing of planning applications, zone and overlay controls, and building control services to ensure community safety
- public facilities and community assets such as community halls
- recreation, sport and leisure facilities
- swimming pools
- libraries
- registration of cats and dogs, as well as domestic animal businesses
- collection of wandering animals
- control of dangerous and restricted breed dogs
- traffic management
- food premises inspection and registration services to ensure compliance with the Food Act
- pest control services
- monitoring and approval of septic tank systems
- litter control
- tree planting
- compliance monitoring of tobacco laws
- emergency management
- tourism and business development services
- native vegetation controls
- health, welfare and community services including kindergartens, maternal and child health facilities, playgroups and neighbourhood and community houses
- youth services and events
- school holiday programs
- skate parks
- community grants funding.