Rate Capping: potential service and infrastructure cuts

To help you provide informed input, Council has prepared a shortlist of services and capital works that could be reduced to meet the 2.5% cap.This shortlist is based on a combination of:
  • input from Community Conversations and other consultation
  • socio-economic impact
  • statutory and non-statutory services
  • services that are not Council’s legal responsibility
  • financial impact
POTENTIAL SERVICE CUTS:
  • School Crossings: Cease Council contribution and only provide supervised crossings that State Government fully funds ($187,000 cut)
  • Fire Prevention: Reduce preventative activities which are not legislative requirements ($150,000 cut)
  • Customer and Library Service Centres: Reduce hours ($85,000 cut)
  • Leisure Centres: Reduce hours ($50,000 cut)
  • Tourism Grants: Cut subsidy to groups providing tourism events and activities ($70,000 cut*)
  • Community Grants: Cut subsidy to community groups which provide community events, activities and equipment ($140,000 cut*)
  • Environment Grants: Cut subsidy to landholders and community groups for weed control, erosion control, revegetation and other environmental works on private land ($120,000 cut*)
* There would also be some staffing impacts on top of the grant funding

POTENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE CUTS:
  • Seymour | Kings Park netball change rooms and court two: Cut from 2016/17 works program with flow on effects to other planned capital works in future years ($270,000 cut)
  • Broadford | Harley Hammond Reserve Oval upgrade: Cut from 2016/17 works program with flow on effects to other planned capital works in future years ($230,000 cut)
  • Wallan | RB Robson Stadium power upgrade: Cut from 2016/17 with flow on effects to other planned capital works in future years ($40,000 cut)
  • Wallan | Footpaths: Cut $100,000 from footpaths in Wallan ($100,000 cut)

Consultation has concluded