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How Your Rates Help Your Community

Your rates help Council pay for local services and facilities. This includes things like rubbish collection, fixing roads and footpaths, looking after parks and gardens, running the library, and supporting community events and services.

Below is a simple breakdown of how Council spends your rates. This is based on every $100 you pay in rates:

What Council spends $100 on:

  • $21 – Maintaining roads, footpaths, drains and parks

  • $19 – Building works and replacing old infrastructure

  • $16 – Waste and environmental management

  • $15 – Parks, sport, recreation and cultural programs

  • $7 – Planning and development

  • $6 – Library services

  • $5 – Community support programs

  • $5 – Traffic and engineering services

  • $3 – Safety services (like rangers and inspections)

  • $3 – Council operations and State Government fees

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