UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax
We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.
Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!
The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.
- At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
- We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
- Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
- Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
- Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
- Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.
The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.
Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.
Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:
1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.
2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).
Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.
The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.
IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES
Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.
We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax
2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.
Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.
As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
“Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.
UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax
We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.
Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!
The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.
- At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
- We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
- Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
- Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
- Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
- Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.
The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.
Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.
Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:
1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.
2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).
Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.
The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.
IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES
Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.
We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax
2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.
Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.
As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
“Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.
UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax
We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.
Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!
The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.
- At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
- We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
- Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
- Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
- Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
- Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.
The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.
Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.
Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:
1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.
2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).
Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.
The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.
IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES
Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.
We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax
2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.
Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.
As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
“Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.
- Trotz der zusätzlichen Kosten pro Jahr sehen wir einen Rückgang der Dienstleistungen in der Gemeinde
- Weniger Parkmöglichkeiten
- Teurere Parkgebühren und Geldstrafen
- Einkaufsstreifen werden zu toten Zonen
- Eine Zunahme der Obdachlosen und Drogen auf den Straßen
- Repräsentiere die Community
- Förderung der steuerlichen Verantwortung und
- Die Mittel der Nachfrageraten werden für die Dienstleistungen und Annehmlichkeiten des Gemeinderats verwendet
- aus finanzieller Sicht nachhaltig, so dass Bewohner aller Mittel weiterhin in unserer großartigen Gemeinschaft leben können
- und dass sie die Lebensfähigkeit unseres Vorortes verbessern
- repräsentieren die Gemeinschaft
- Förderung der steuerlichen Verantwortung und
- fordern, dass wertvolle Gelder der Zinszahler für das Geschäft der Kommunen verwendet werden
Wir sagen: Zinsen für Senioren senken, sie nicht dazu zwingen, ihr Zuhause zu verlassen oder sich zu verschulden.
Es gibt viele Einwohner in Port Phillip, wie Tanya*, die sich dem Alptraum stellen müssen, dass der Rat exorbitante Zinsen von ihnen verlangt, weil sie wissen, dass sie mit einem kleinen festen Einkommen oder einer kleinen Rente niemals zahlen können. In den meisten Fällen sind diese Bewohner einfach die unschuldigen Opfer von überhöhten Ausgaben und unerschwinglichen Raten.
Als Adrian beispielsweise 1983 sein erstes Haus in Middle Park kaufte, betrugen die Raten 500 US-Dollar pro Jahr. Jetzt sind sie $5000, aber das Serviceniveau hat sich nicht wesentlich erhöht. Die Lösung des Rates für diese kämpfenden Bewohner besteht darin, ihr Eigentum an den Rat zu verpfänden oder zu verkaufen und woanders hinzuziehen. Der Rat hat dann einen Vorbehalt gegen ihre Häuser.
Der dürftige „Hilfe“-Rat bietet denen mit einer Rentenkarte
Viele Rentner in Port Phillip sind Getreue ihrer Gemeinden. Viele sind in den Gegenden geboren und aufgewachsen, in denen sie jetzt leben, und sind stolz darauf, unsere Vororte ihr Zuhause zu nennen. Wenn der Rat die Zinsen unerbittlich auf ein Niveau erhöht, das in anderen Teilen von Melbourne nicht zu finden ist, müssen Fragen zur Fairness eines Zinssystems gestellt werden, das ältere Menschen zwingt, ihre Häuser umzuschulden.
Das derzeit hohe Niveau der Port Phillip-Raten fügt unseren Senioren in einem ohnehin schon stressigen Jahr unnötigen Stress hinzu. Sie wollen einfach nur ihr Leben in Ruhe mit ihrem festen Einkommen in den Häusern leben, in denen sie ihre Familien großgezogen haben.
WIR SAGEN, dass wir diese entsetzliche Behandlung unserer Senioren nicht tolerieren sollten, und wir fordern, dass die Tarife für Senioren gesenkt werden. Der Rat gibt jedes Jahr Millionen für leichtfertige, ideologisch inspirierte Projekte aus, die Millionen unserer Dollars verschwenden und nur den Druck für diejenigen erhöhen, die im Ruhestand sind. Da fast 42 % aller Gemeindeeinnahmen für die Beschäftigung von 800 bis 900 Gemeindebeamten ausgegeben werden, viel mehr als benachbarte Gemeinden, liegt ein Grund für unsere hohen Sätze auf der Hand. Viele scheinen zu existieren, um endlos Berichte zu schreiben, und sind nicht direkt an der Erbringung von Dienstleistungen beteiligt. Dies ist eine massive eigennützige Bürokratie, die viel Raum für Effizienzsteigerungen und verbesserte Produktivität bietet, damit wir uns besser um schutzbedürftige Menschen in unserer Gemeinde kümmern können. Echte Wohltätigkeit sollte bei unseren älteren Steuerzahlern beginnen, die seit langem in der Stadt Port Phillip leben.
Schande über unsere Ratsmitglieder und unseren Rat dafür, dass sie unsere Bewohner verschulden.
*Tanyas Geschichte ist real und wird in ganz Port Phillip widergespiegelt, aber ihr Name und ihr Gesicht wurden geändert, um ihre Identität zu schützen. Der Rat bietet Rentnern die Möglichkeit, die Zahlung ihrer Raten aufzuschieben, bis ihre Immobilien verkauft sind. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt kassieren sie die nicht gezahlten Raten zuzüglich Zinsen von 5 % pa, was effektiv eine Umkehrhypothek ist.
Der Rat hat seinen Entwurf des Haushaltsplans 2021-22 für die Konsultation der Gemeinschaft veröffentlicht. Wenn Sie über den Plan des Rates zur erneuten Erhöhung der Sätze besorgt sind und dies noch nicht getan haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an die folgenden Ratsmitglieder und bitten Sie sie, die Sätze im Haushaltsplan 2021-22 nicht zu erhöhen, wenn sie am 23. Juni über den Antrag abstimmen.
- Cr Baxter
Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 495 250 - Cr Copsey
Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 478 949 - Bürgermeister Crawford
Louise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 514 643 - Cr Cunsolo
Heather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 227 014 - Cr Martin
Peter.Martin@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0435 390 821
Nur vier Ratsmitglieder haben öffentlich erklärt, dass sie einen Zinsstopp unterstützen. Sie sind:
- Cr Bond
Andrew.Bond@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0481 034 028 - Cr Clarke
Rhonda.Clark@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0435 098 738 - Cr Pearl
Marcus.Pearl@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 448 272 - Cr Sirakoff
Christina.Sirakoff@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0435 419 930
Was solltest du sonst noch wissen?
Wir glauben, dass der Rat effizienter werden muss, um Dienstleistungen für unsere Gemeinde zu erbringen. Der Rat teilt uns mit, dass ein Zinsstopp bedeutet, dass die Dienstleistungen gekürzt werden müssen, aber wir sagen, dass der Rat keine Berichte erstellen muss, die niemand will oder liest. Das Schreiben eines 200 oder 300 Seiten langen Berichts, den niemand liest, ist kein Dienst. Wenn die Ratsmitglieder für einen Zinsstopp stimmen, müssen der CEO und sein Team die Effizienz ermitteln, anstatt die Dienstleistungen zu kürzen. Der Rat von Port Phillip bestreitet, dass es in Port Phillip ein Tarifproblem gibt, aber die Tarifzahler sind sich nur schmerzlich bewusst, dass sie das Doppelte, Dreifache oder Dreifache der Tarife zahlen, die für Immobilien mit ähnlichem Wert in benachbarten Räten gezahlt werden. Der Rat verwendet Durchschnittsraten, um Port Phillip mit anderen Räten zu vergleichen, aber die Durchschnittsraten sind irreführend und irreführend, da wir ein viel höheres Verhältnis von Einheiten / Wohnungen zu Häusern haben und dies zu einer niedrigeren Zahl führt.
Siehe Fact Check unter https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax
We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.
Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!
The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.
- At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
- We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
- Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
- Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
- Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
- Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.
The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.
Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.
Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:
1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.
2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).
Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.
The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.
IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES
Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.
We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax
2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.
Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.
As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
“Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.
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Gasworks befindet sich im Albert Park, Melbourne, auf dem Gelände der ehemaligen South Melbourne Gas Plant. Es ist drei Kilometer vom zentralen Geschäftsviertel entfernt und beherbergt vier Hektar Park, zwei Theater, drei Galerieräume, ein Café sowie Veranstaltungs- und Workshopräume.
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Sie suchen regelmäßig nach Bewerbungen von Künstlern und Kuratoren für Gruppen- oder Einzelausstellungen und bevorzugen Künstler und Kuratoren, die in der Stadt Port Phillip leben und arbeiten.
"Das Land, auf dem Linden New Art heute steht, wurde 1870 vom jüdischen Einwanderer Moritz Michaelis (1820-1902) gekauft. Das viktorianische Herrenhaus wurde 1871 von dem bekannten Architekten Alfred Friedrich Kursteiner (1829-1897) erbaut und die umliegenden Gärten wurden von Landschaftsgärtner und Botaniker William Guilfoyle (1840-1912), der auch bekanntermaßen Melbournes Royal Botanic Gardens entworfen hat. Michaelis nannte das Haus Linden, was auf Deutsch "Limee" bedeutet." - https://www.lindenarts.org/about-us/
„Wir sind nicht nur Sportler. Wir sind Menschen , nachdem alle, und manchmal muss man einen Schritt zurück nehmen“ , sagte die amerikanische Turnerin Simone Biles am Dienstag , als sie in die Arena der Olympischen Spiele in Tokio verlassen.
An diesem Mittwoch ist Biles auch von der Teilnahme am ersten Einzelturnier-Finale in Tokio 2020 zurückgetreten, das am Donnerstag ausgetragen wird.
Er hat noch nicht bestätigt, ob er in den nächsten Tagen am anderen teilnehmen wird Finale diejenigen , die qualifiziert in Tokio. Sprung und Stufenbarren (am Sonntag, 1. August), solitär (am Montag, 2. August) und Schwebebalken (am Dienstag, 30)
Obwohl nicht alle die Welt hat die Sichtbarkeit von Biles oder Leben unter dem Druck , dass Athleten im wichtigsten Wettbewerb der Welt ausgesetzt sind, kann der Athleten Geste als eine Lektion und Reflexion für alle dient, nach dem psychischen Gesundheit Spezialisten im Interview mit BBC News Brasilien.
"Heute wird mehr über psychische Gesundheit in Sport, Musik, Bildung gesprochen ... und die Tatsache ho, dass es diskutiert wird, entmystifiziert das Thema ", sagt die klinische Psychiaterin Lívia Castelo Branco.
Was läuft auf https://www.theatreworks.org.au/now-playing/2021-season-program/
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Heidekraut Cunsolo 0466 227 014
Heather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Katherine Copsey 0466 478 949
Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Peter Martin 0435 390 821
Peter.Martin@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Louise Crawford 0466 514 643
Louise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Tim Baxter 0466 495 250
Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Fünf kontaktlose Stadträte - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin und Crawford - zeigten Missachtung gegenüber Einwohnern und Gebührenzahlern.
Fünf Stadträte – haben in diesen schwierigen Covid-Zeiten gegen einen Zinsstopp gestimmt. Die Kosten dafür betrugen nur 1,98 Millionen US-Dollar.
Fünf Stadträte – lehnten einen Zinsstopp ab, obwohl der Rat einen Barüberschuss von 4,4 Millionen US-Dollar plus 2,3 Millionen US-Dollar aus neuen Immobilien prognostiziert hatte.
Fünf Stadträte - erhöhten dann die Ausgaben um 1,35 Millionen US-Dollar für Handouts und Heimtierprojekte für Minderheitengruppen, was der gesamten Gemeinde wenig bringt.
WIR SAGEN
Halten Sie die Politik aus Port Phillip heraus. Die Bewohner bekommen sehr wenig für die exorbitanten Preise, die wir zahlen. Es ist an der Zeit, mit dem Finger auf die Stadträte zu zeigen, die unsere Tarife erhöhen, Geld verschwenden und gegen die Interessen der Einwohner und Tarifzahler arbeiten. Wenn diese fünf Stadträte während COVID nicht für einen Ratenstopp stimmen können, wann werden sie es tun?
UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax
We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.
Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!
The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.
- At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
- We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
- Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
- Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
- Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
- Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.
The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.
Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.
Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:
1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.
2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).
Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.
The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.
IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES
Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.
We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax
2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.
Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.
As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
“Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.
Fragen Sie diese 5 Stadträte 
Heidekraut Cunsolo 0466 227 014
Heather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Katherine Copsey 0466 478 949
Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Peter Martin 0435 390 821
Peter.Martin@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Louise Crawford 0466 514 643
Louise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Tim Baxter 0466 495 250
Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au
Fünf kontaktlose Stadträte - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin und Crawford - zeigten Missachtung gegenüber Einwohnern und Gebührenzahlern.
Fünf Stadträte – haben in diesen schwierigen Covid-Zeiten gegen einen Zinsstopp gestimmt. Die Kosten dafür betrugen nur 1,98 Millionen US-Dollar.
Fünf Stadträte – lehnten einen Zinsstopp ab, obwohl der Rat einen Barüberschuss von 4,4 Millionen US-Dollar plus 2,3 Millionen US-Dollar aus neuen Immobilien prognostiziert hatte.
Fünf Stadträte - erhöhten dann die Ausgaben um 1,35 Millionen US-Dollar für Handouts und Heimtierprojekte für Minderheitengruppen, was der gesamten Gemeinde wenig bringt.
WIR SAGEN
Halten Sie die Politik aus Port Phillip heraus. Die Bewohner bekommen sehr wenig für die exorbitanten Preise, die wir zahlen. Es ist an der Zeit, mit dem Finger auf die Stadträte zu zeigen, die unsere Tarife erhöhen, Geld verschwenden und gegen die Interessen der Einwohner und Tarifzahler arbeiten. Wenn diese fünf Stadträte während COVID nicht für einen Ratenstopp stimmen können, wann werden sie es tun?
UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax
We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.
Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!
The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.
- At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
- We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
- Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
- Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
- Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
- Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.
The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.
Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/
So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.
Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:
1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.
2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).
Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.
The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.
IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES
Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.
We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax
2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.
Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.
As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
“Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.