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.

• Meskipun ada biaya tambahan setiap tahun, kami melihat penurunan layanan di kotamadya
• Ketersediaan parkir lebih sedikit
• Biaya parkir dan denda lebih mahal
• Jalur belanja menjadi zona mati
• Peningkatan jumlah tunawisma dan narkoba di jalanan

• Mewakili komunitas
• Mempromosikan tanggung jawab fiskal dan
• Dana pembayar permintaan digunakan untuk layanan dan fasilitas Dewan lokal

• berkelanjutan dari sudut pandang finansial, sehingga penghuni dengan segala cara dapat terus hidup dalam komunitas besar kami
• dan bahwa mereka meningkatkan kelayakan hidup di pinggiran kota kita

• mewakili komunitas
• mempromosikan tanggung jawab fiskal dan
• menuntut agar dana pembayar peringkat yang berharga digunakan untuk bisnis dewan lokal

Kami katakan - potong suku bunga untuk manula, bukan memaksa mereka keluar dari rumah atau berutang.

Ada banyak penduduk di Port Phillip, seperti Tanya*, yang menghadapi mimpi buruk Dewan yang menuntut tarif selangit dari mereka karena mengetahui bahwa dengan pendapatan tetap atau pensiun kecil mereka tidak akan pernah mampu membayar. Dalam kebanyakan kasus, penduduk ini hanyalah korban tidak bersalah dari dewan yang mengeluarkan uang terlalu banyak dan tarif yang tidak terjangkau.

Sebagai contoh, pada tahun 1983 ketika Adrian membeli rumah pertamanya di Middle Park, tarifnya adalah $500 per tahun. Sekarang harganya $5000 tetapi tingkat layanannya tidak meningkat secara substansial. Solusi Dewan untuk penduduk yang berjuang ini adalah dengan menggadaikan properti mereka ke dewan atau menjual dan pindah ke tempat lain. Dewan kemudian memiliki peringatan di rumah mereka.

Dewan 'bantuan' yang sangat sedikit memberikan kepada mereka yang memiliki kartu pensiun

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

Banyak pensiunan penduduk di Port Phillip adalah pendukung komunitas mereka. Banyak yang lahir dan besar di daerah yang mereka tinggali sekarang dan dengan bangga menyebut daerah pinggiran kami sebagai rumah. Ketika dewan tanpa henti meningkatkan tarif ke tingkat yang tidak terlihat di bagian lain Melbourne, pertanyaan harus diajukan tentang keadilan sistem tarif yang memaksa orang tua untuk mengembalikan hipotek rumah mereka.

Tingkat tarif Port Phillip yang tinggi saat ini menambah tekanan yang tidak perlu bagi warga senior kita di tahun yang sudah penuh tekanan. Mereka hanya ingin menjalani hidup mereka dengan tenang, dengan penghasilan tetap, di rumah tempat mereka membesarkan keluarga.

KITA KATAKAN- kita tidak boleh mentolerir perlakuan mengerikan ini terhadap warga senior kita dan kami menuntut agar tarif untuk manula harus dipotong. Dewan menghabiskan jutaan setiap tahun untuk proyek-proyek yang diilhami secara ideologis sembrono yang menghabiskan jutaan dolar kita dan hanya meningkatkan tekanan bagi mereka yang sudah pensiun. Dengan hampir 42% dari semua pendapatan Dewan dihabiskan untuk mempekerjakan antara 800-900 pegawai negeri dewan, lebih banyak dari dewan tetangga, salah satu alasan tingkat tinggi kami terbukti. Banyak yang tampaknya ada untuk menulis laporan tanpa henti dan tidak terlibat langsung dalam memberikan layanan. Ini adalah birokrasi besar yang melayani diri sendiri yang memiliki banyak ruang untuk efisiensi dan produktivitas yang lebih baik sehingga kami dapat menjaga orang-orang yang rentan di komunitas kami dengan lebih baik. Amal sejati harus dimulai dengan pembayar pajak lansia kita yang merupakan penduduk jangka panjang Kota Port Phillip.

Malu pada Penasihat kami dan Dewan kami karena membuat penduduk kami berhutang.

*Kisah Tanya adalah nyata dan bergema di seluruh Port Phillip tetapi nama dan wajahnya telah diubah untuk melindungi identitasnya. Dewan memberikan pensiunan pilihan untuk menunda pembayaran tarif mereka sampai properti mereka dijual pada saat itu, mereka mengumpulkan tarif yang belum dibayar ditambah bunga 5% per tahun yang secara efektif merupakan hipotek terbalik.

Council telah menerbitkan Draf Anggaran 2021-22 mereka untuk konsultasi komunitas. Jika Anda khawatir tentang rencana Dewan untuk menaikkan tarif lagi dan Anda belum melakukannya, silakan hubungi Anggota Dewan berikut dan minta mereka untuk tidak menaikkan tarif dalam Anggaran 2021-22 ketika mereka memberikan suara pada mosi pada tanggal 23 Juni.

• Cr Baxter
  Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 495 250
• Cr Copsey
  Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 478 949
• Walikota 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

Hanya empat Anggota Dewan yang secara terbuka menyatakan mereka mendukung pembekuan tarif. Mereka:

• Cr Bond
  Andrew.Bond@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0481 034 028
• Cr Clarke
  Rhonda.Clark@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0435 098 738
• Cr Mutiara
  Marcus.Pearl@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0466 448 272
• Cr Sirakoff
  Christina.Sirakoff@portphillip.vic.gov.au
  0435 419 930

Apa lagi yang harus Anda ketahui?
Kami percaya Council harus menjadi lebih efisien dalam memberikan layanan kepada komunitas kami. Kami diberitahu oleh Dewan bahwa pembekuan tarif berarti layanan harus dipotong, tetapi kami mengatakan Dewan tidak perlu menyiapkan laporan yang tidak diinginkan atau dibaca oleh siapa pun. Menulis laporan sepanjang 200 atau 300 halaman yang tidak dibaca oleh siapa pun bukanlah layanan. Jika Anggota Dewan memilih untuk membekukan suku bunga, maka CEO dan timnya perlu mengidentifikasi efisiensi daripada memotong layanan. Dewan Port Phillip menyangkal ada masalah tarif di Port Phillip, tetapi pembayar harga sangat menyadari bahwa mereka membayar dua kali, tiga kali atau lebih dari tarif yang dibayarkan untuk properti dengan nilai yang sama di Dewan tetangga. Council menggunakan tarif rata-rata untuk membandingkan Port Phillip dengan Dewan lain, tetapi tarif rata-rata menyesatkan dan menipu karena kami memiliki rasio unit / apartemen dengan rumah yang jauh lebih tinggi dan cenderung rata-rata ke angka yang lebih rendah.

Lihat Fact Check di 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 memiliki enam belas seniman visual tetap dan tim kecil staf profesional yang bekerja untuk mempresentasikan program tahunan festival dan acara termasuk musim dengan beberapa festival seni terkemuka Melbourne, pasar petani, kelas dan lokakarya, peluang pengembangan kreatif dan profesional untuk artis, program anak-anak dan banyak lagi. Selain itu, lebih dari 200 acara seni pertunjukan dan 30 pameran seni visual disajikan di tempat tersebut setiap tahun.

Gasworks terletak di Albert Park, Melbourne, di lokasi bekas Pabrik Gas South Melbourne. Berjarak tiga kilometer dari CBD dan kawasan ini menampung empat hektar taman, dua teater, tiga ruang galeri, kafe, serta ruang serbaguna dan bengkel.

Ada Apa di https://www.gasworks.org.au/whats-on

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"Kami tidak hanya atlet. Kami adalah orang-orang setelah semua, dan kadang-kadang Anda harus mengambil langkah mundur," kata pesenam Amerika Simone Biles pada Selasa karena dia meninggalkan arena Olimpiade Tokyo.

Rabu ini, Biles juga mengundurkan diri dari pertandingan final senam artistik individu pertama di Tokyo 2020 yang akan digelar pada Kamis. final untuk orang-orang yang berkualitas di Tokyo. melompat dan bar yang tidak rata (pada Minggu, Agustus 1), solitaire (Senin, 2 Agustus) dan balok keseimbangan (Selasa, 30)

Meskipun tidak semua dunia memiliki visibilitas Biles atau hidup di bawah tekanan yang atlet dikenakan di kompetisi paling penting di dunia, gerakan atlet bisa menjadi pelajaran dan refleksi bagi semua orang, menurut spesialis kesehatan mental diwawancarai oleh BBC News Brazil.

"Hari ini ada lebih banyak pembicaraan tentang kesehatan mental dalam olahraga, musik, pendidikan ... dan fakta bahwa hal itu dibahas menghilangkan misteri masalah ini, "kata psikiater klinis Lívia Castelo Branco.

Heather 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

Lima Anggota Dewan yang tidak dapat dihubungi - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin, dan Crawford - menunjukkan ketidakpedulian terhadap penduduk dan pembayar pajak.

Lima Anggota Dewan - memberikan suara menentang pembekuan suku bunga selama masa Covid yang sulit ini. Biaya untuk melakukan ini hanya $ 1,98 juta.

Lima Anggota Dewan - menolak pembekuan suku bunga, meskipun dewan memperkirakan surplus tunai $4,4 juta ditambah $2,3 juta dari properti baru.

Lima Penasihat - kemudian meningkatkan pengeluaran sebesar $1,35 juta untuk proyek pemberian & hewan peliharaan untuk kelompok minoritas, memberikan sedikit untuk seluruh komunitas.

KAMI BILANG
Jauhkan politik dari Port Phillip. Warga mendapatkan sangat sedikit untuk harga selangit yang kami bayarkan. Saatnya menuding para Penasihat yang menaikkan tarif kami, membuang-buang uang dan bekerja melawan kepentingan penduduk dan pembayar tarif. Jika Lima Anggota Dewan ini tidak dapat memberikan suara untuk pembekuan tarif selama COVID, kapan mereka akan melakukannya?

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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.

Tanyakan kepada 5 anggota dewan ini

Heather 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

Lima Anggota Dewan yang tidak dapat dihubungi - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin, dan Crawford - menunjukkan ketidakpedulian terhadap penduduk dan pembayar pajak.

Lima Anggota Dewan - memberikan suara menentang pembekuan suku bunga selama masa Covid yang sulit ini. Biaya untuk melakukan ini hanya $ 1,98 juta.

Lima Anggota Dewan - menolak pembekuan suku bunga, meskipun dewan memperkirakan surplus tunai $4,4 juta ditambah $2,3 juta dari properti baru.

Lima Penasihat - kemudian meningkatkan pengeluaran sebesar $1,35 juta untuk proyek pemberian & hewan peliharaan untuk kelompok minoritas, memberikan sedikit untuk seluruh komunitas.

KAMI BILANG
Jauhkan politik dari Port Phillip. Warga mendapatkan sangat sedikit untuk harga selangit yang kami bayarkan. Saatnya menuding para Penasihat yang menaikkan tarif kami, membuang-buang uang dan bekerja melawan kepentingan penduduk dan pembayar tarif. Jika Lima Anggota Dewan ini tidak dapat memberikan suara untuk pembekuan tarif selama COVID, kapan mereka akan melakukannya?

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.