Publisher 90

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.

Publisher 90

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.

Publisher 90

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.

失去联系的议会正在拆除停车场，而很少考虑居民和商人的需求。

市政局在财政上对停车场的收费和罚款有很大的依赖性，并且正在执行意识形态上的使命，要求拆除停车场。菲利普港湾委员会可持续交通政策和停车费率“理事会正在寻求减少对私家车使用的依赖。”市议会与居民脱节，因为当我们已经支付高昂的费用并且没有足够的停车场时，我们不希望支付停车许可证。安理会正在抓住任何机会筹集现金，以资助其庞大的官僚机构。停车位已成为其无所不用其极的雷达，很少考虑到居民或零售企业的需求。

RoPP的停车政策：

• 所有符合条件的财产一张免费许可证。
• 鼓励客户以低成本停车位购物。
• 我们不支持在社区中不必要地拆除停车场，尤其是在购物区。
• 使用现实世界中的汽车拥有量和停车数据来评估社区和商人现在和将来的停车需求。
• 确保有足够和公平的房屋停车位。 *确保所有公寓楼开发项目的所有公寓均设有现场停车位。

在停车和交通管理方面，市政局与居民的需求脱节。尽管绝大多数居民拥有一辆或多辆汽车*，但菲利普港议会的意识形态重点仍然放在停车位的撤除上，尽管已经确定汽车对我们的社区至关重要。特别适合家庭购物，带孩子上学或参加体育运动，上下班通勤或探望家人和朋友。对于老年人尤其如此。

市政局的意识形态对狭窄的街道产生了不利影响，当自行车道放置在错误的位置时，这会给驾驶员带来更大的困难，也给骑自行车的人带来更大的危险。拆除宝贵的停车位，这对我们的商人来说是一笔生意。市政厅的审慎战略正在改变我们不断壮大的社区-并非变得更好。

费兹罗伊（Fitzroy）和阿克兰（Acland）大街曾经繁荣，我们城市的标志性建筑因规划欠佳而被淘汰。大多数路边停车位已被拆除，将这些曾经繁华和吸引人的景点变成安静的零售回水区。

规划增长
尽管市议会期望社区人数会增加，但他们正在减少我们的行车道和停车位。缺乏足够的停车场和过高的成本使我们的社区和游客在菲利普港（Port Phillip）的餐饮或购物望而却步。

https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/about-the-council/strategies-policies-and-plans/transport-policies-strategies-and-plans

居民路边停车
菲利普港务局内的房价是墨尔本最高的***，但居民仍需支付停车许可证。与附近的议会居民不同，格伦埃拉（Glen Eira）居民免费获得一张停车许可证，斯托宁顿（Stonnington）居民获得两张免费停车许可证，而贝赛德（Bayside）居民获得四张免费停车许可证。有人会认为，对于我们被迫支付的高昂费用，我们至少能够免费将一辆我们的车辆免费停放在自己的家中。但是我们的理事会需要现金，因此他们需要收取额外的年度“停车许可证”费用。另一种“反社区税”

最近，RoPP向理事会询问了这些费用，这是理事会的答复：
“停车许可证定价并非旨在增加收入，而是实现成本中立的结果”安理会工作人员

我们说–如果是这种情况，那么为什么理事会首先收取此费用，而不是仅免费向符合条件的居民提供路边停车位？
如果候选人在即将举行的选举中获得安理会内部权力平衡，我们对纳税人的保证是，我们将确保符合条件的纳税人在路边停车是免费的。

市政厅应最大限度地利用停车位，并尽量减少居民的费用，以向依赖便捷停车位的大多数社区提供便利。居民的停车费应合理，理事会不应依靠居民的过多停车收入来支撑预算**。
由于停车费用，不应阻止居民和访客在菲利普港（Port Phillip）郊游。

• 尽管每年都有额外的费用，但我们发现市政当局的服务有所下降
• 较少的停车位
• 更昂贵的停车费和罚款
• 购物带成为死区
• 街头无家可归者和毒品影响增加

• 代表社区
• 促进财政责任和
• 需求纳税人资金用于地方市政厅的服务和设施

• 从财务的角度来看是可持续的，因此各种形式的居民都可以继续生活在我们这个伟大的社区中
• 并增强了我们郊区的宜居性

• 代表社区
• 促进财政责任和
• 要求将宝贵的纳税人资金用于地方市政事务

我们说 - 降低老年人的利率，而不是强迫他们离开家园或负债。

菲利普港有许多居民，比如 Tanya*，他们面临着议会要求他们收取高额费用的噩梦，他们知道他们永远无法支付少量的固定收入或养老金。在大多数情况下，这些居民只是超支的议会和难以承受的房价的无辜受害者。

例如，1983 年阿德里安在米德尔帕克买下他的第一套房子时，年费为 500 美元。现在他们是 5000 美元，但服务水平并没有显着提高。市议会对这些陷入困境的居民的解决方案是将他们的财产反向抵押给市议会或出售并搬到其他地方。然后，市议会对他们的房屋提出警告。

微不足道的“帮助”委员会为养老金卡上的人提供

https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/council-services/rates-and-valuations/rates-concessions-and-rates-hardship-relief

菲利普港的许多退休居民都是他们社区的忠实拥护者。许多人在他们现在居住的地区出生和长大，并以我们的郊区为家而自豪。当市议会无情地将利率提高到墨尔本其他地区所没有的水平时，必须对迫使老年人取消抵押房屋的利率体系的公平性提出质疑。

在本已紧张的一年里，菲利普港目前的高利率给我们的老年人增加了不必要的压力。他们只想安静地过着自己的生活，靠着固定的收入，在他们养家糊口的房子里。

我们说——我们不应该容忍这种对老年人的骇人听闻的待遇，我们要求应该降低老年人的费率。理事会每年花费数百万美元用于无聊的意识形态项目，这些项目浪费了我们数百万美元，只会增加退休人员的压力。几乎 42% 的市议会收入用于雇用 800-900 名市政府公务员，比邻近的市政府要多得多，这是我们高利率的原因之一。许多人似乎是为了无休止地写报告而存在，并不直接参与提供服务。这是一个庞大的自私自利的官僚机构，在提高效率和提高生产力方面有很大空间，因此我们可以更好地照顾社区中的弱势群体。真正的慈善事业应该从长期居住在菲利普港市的老年纳税人开始。

我们的议员和我们的议会让我们的居民负债累累。

*Tanya 的故事是真实的，并且在整个菲利普港都有回响，但为了保护她的身份，她的名字和面孔已被更改。市议会为退休人员提供延迟支付地税的选项，直到他们的房产被出售，届时他们将收取未付的地税加上每年 5% 的利息，这实际上是一种反向抵押贷款。

理事会已发布了2021-22年预算草案，以征询社区意见。如果您担心安理会再次提高利率的计划并且尚未这样做，请联系以下议员，并要求他们在6月23日对议案进行表决时不要在2021-22预算中提高利率。

• 巴克斯特
  Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 495 250
• 科普西（Cr Copsey）
  Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 478 949
• 克劳福德市长
  Louise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 514 643
• 铬昆索洛
  Heather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 227 014
• 马丁
  彼得·马丁@ portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0435 390 821

只有四位议员公开表示他们支持降息。他们是：

• 铬键
  Andrew.Bond@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0481 034 028
• 克拉克
  Rhonda.Clark@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0435 098 738
• 铬珍珠
  马库斯·皮尔@ portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 448 272
• 西拉科夫（Cr Sirakoff）
  克里斯蒂娜·西拉科夫（Christina.Sirakoff@portphillip.vic.gov.au）
  0435 419 930

你还应该知道些什么？
我们认为，理事会必须提高为社区提供服务的效率。安理会告诉我们，冻结价格意味着必须削减服务，但我们说安理会不需要准备没人要或不需要阅读的报告。撰写长度为200或300页的人无法阅读的报告不是一项服务。如果议员投票赞成冻结利率，那么首席执行官及其团队将需要确定效率，而不是削减服务。菲利普港议会否认菲利普港存在房价问题，但纳税人只是痛苦地意识到，他们为相邻议会中具有类似价值的房产所付房价的价格是其两倍，三倍或更多倍。市议会使用平均费率将菲利普港湾与其他市议会进行基准比较，但平均费率具有误导性和欺骗性，因为我们单位/公寓与房屋的比率高得多，而且偏向于平均数/比率偏低。

请参阅以下网址的事实检查：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.

Gasworks Arts Park 拥有 16 位常驻视觉艺术家和一小队专业工作人员，他们致力于展示年度节日和活动计划，包括墨尔本一些著名的艺术节、农贸市场、课程和工作坊、创意和专业发展机会艺术家，儿童节目等等。此外，每年会场举办超过200场表演艺术活动和30场视觉艺术展览。

Gasworks 位于墨尔本的阿尔伯特公园，在前南墨尔本天然气厂的旧址上。它距离中央商务区 3 公里，该区域拥有 4 公顷的公园、两个剧院、三个画廊空间、一个咖啡厅以及功能和工作室空间。

什么在https://www.gasworks.org.au/whats-on

谷歌地图参考：-37.843317、144.946260

“我们不只是运动员。我们毕竟是人，有时你不得不退一步，说：”美国体操选手西蒙尼·比尔斯周二她离开了东京奥运会的赛场上。

本周三，拜尔斯也退出了将于周四举行的 2020 东京奥运会个人艺术体操决赛。

他尚未确认是否会参加接下来几天的比赛决赛于那些在东京合格：跳，高低杠（周日，8月1日），纸牌（周一，8月2日）和平衡木（周二，30）

虽然不是所有的世界上有运动员在世界上最重要的比赛受到Biles或生活的压力下的可视性，运动员的动作可以作为大家的教训和反思，根据BBC新闻巴西采访了心理健康专家。

“今天有更多关于体育、音乐、教育......以及事实的心理健康的讨论ho 的讨论揭开了这个问题的神秘面纱，“临床精神病学家 Lívia Castelo Branco 说。

希瑟·康索洛 0466 227 014

Heather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au

凯瑟琳·科普西 0466 478 949
Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au

彼得·马丁 0435 390 821
Peter.Martin@portphillip.vic.gov.au

路易丝·克劳馥 0466 514 643
Louise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au

蒂姆·巴克斯特 0466 495 250
Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au

五位失去联系的议员——Cunsolo、Baxter、Copsey、Martin 和 Crawford——表现出对居民和纳税人的漠视。

五位议员- 在这些艰难的 Covid 时期投票反对冻结利率。这样做的成本仅为 198 万美元。

五位议员- 拒绝冻结利率，尽管市议会预测现金盈余为 440 万澳元，加上新房产的 230 万澳元。

五名议员- 然后在少数群体的施舍和宠物项目上增加了 135 万美元的支出，对整个社区的贡献很小。

我们说
让政治远离菲利普港。我们支付的高昂费用让居民得到的很少。是时候指责议员们提高我们的费率、浪费金钱并违背居民和纳税人的利益。如果这五位议员不能在 COVID 期间投票赞成冻结利率，他们什么时候会？

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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.

问这5位议员

希瑟·康索洛 0466 227 014
Heather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au

凯瑟琳·科普西 0466 478 949
Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au

彼得·马丁 0435 390 821
Peter.Martin@portphillip.vic.gov.au

路易丝·克劳馥 0466 514 643
Louise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au

蒂姆·巴克斯特 0466 495 250
Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au

五位失去联系的议员——Cunsolo、Baxter、Copsey、Martin 和 Crawford——表现出对居民和纳税人的漠视。

五位议员- 在这些艰难的 Covid 时期投票反对冻结利率。这样做的成本仅为 198 万美元。

五位议员- 拒绝冻结利率，尽管市议会预测现金盈余为 440 万澳元，加上新房产的 230 万澳元。

五名议员- 然后在少数群体的施舍和宠物项目上增加了 135 万美元的支出，对整个社区的贡献很小。

我们说
让政治远离菲利普港。我们支付的高昂费用让居民得到的很少。是时候指责议员们提高我们的费率、浪费金钱并违背居民和纳税人的利益。如果这五位议员不能在 COVID 期间投票赞成冻结利率，他们什么时候会？

3206 Beach Patrol 由一群志同道合的 Middle 和 Albert Park 居民于 2009 年创立，他们认为他们可以为沿 Beaconsfield Parade 延伸的当地海滩的维护和清洁做出贡献。每月组织周六早上的海滩清洁活动，持续了一个小时，让我们的海滩从 Kerferd Rd 到 Langridge Street 没有垃圾、塑料和肮脏的东西……所有人都可以使用更安全，对眼睛也更好。

独特的 3206 红色海滩巡逻 T 恤在我们的沙滩上工作，引起了我们海湾邻居的居民的注意，并在 2 年内从墨尔本港（3207 件蓝色 T 恤）、圣基尔达（3182 件紫色 T-衬衫）和 Elwood（3184 件绿色 T 恤）。在布莱顿加入行动后不久，桑德灵厄姆、南墨尔本、威廉斯敦和今天的名单还在继续。从阿尔托纳 (Altona) 到玛莎山 (Mount Martha) 和弗兰克斯顿 (Frankston) 海滩巡逻队环绕着海湾，我们可以自豪地说，这一切都始于市中心 3206。

海滩巡逻队的一个精彩分支是一个名为 Love Our Street 的团体，该团体以同样的方式运作，提供邮政编码、彩色 T 恤，但专注于我们村庄内外的街头垃圾。 Elwood 开始了它，Love our Street 现在在 Glen Waverly 和 Werribee 等广泛的地方拥有 26 个活跃的团体。

我们还没有 3206 Love Our Street，以防有人有兴趣开办！

查看海滩 www.patrol.com.au 以获取有关即将进行的集体清洁的更多信息和详细信息。

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.