MOYNE Shire Council’s annual rates bills will be tempered slightly under a proposed budget which sets a 4.9 per cent increase to achieve a $750,000 surplus.
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The draft budget to be unveiled this afternoon at Port Fairy shows the proposed rise is lower than the long-term recommended hike of 5.75 per cent and the five per cent rises for the previous two financial years. General rates and charges are expected to bring in $18.97 million including $1.4m from energy generating companies.
However, the proposed capital works expenditure has been trimmed back to $14.9m compared with $20.6m this financial year and $15.44m for 2012-13. Capital spending will include $8.5m on roads.
Other items on the agenda include a planning permit application for a two-storey house at Ritchie Street on land that council officers say is flood prone, a call for support from the Great South Coast to oppose exploration and extraction of coal seam gas and shale oil gas by fracking and a call for Moyne involvement in the Warrnambool saleyards issue.
