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.
- Walaupun terdapat kos tambahan setiap tahun kami melihat penurunan perkhidmatan di kawasan perbandaran
- Kekurangan tempat letak kenderaan
- Bayaran dan denda tempat letak kereta yang lebih mahal
- Jalur membeli-belah menjadi zon mati
- Peningkatan kehilangan tempat tinggal dan ubat-ubatan yang terjejas di jalanan
- Mewakili masyarakat
- Menggalakkan tanggungjawab fiskal dan
- Dana pemohon pembayaran permintaan digunakan untuk perkhidmatan dan kemudahan Majlis tempatan
- lestari dari sudut kewangan, jadi penduduk dari segala cara dapat terus tinggal di komuniti hebat kami
- dan bahawa mereka meningkatkan daya hidup di pinggir bandar kita
- mewakili masyarakat
- mempromosikan tanggungjawab fiskal dan
- menuntut agar dana ratepayer berharga digunakan untuk perniagaan majlis tempatan
Kami katakan - potong kadar untuk warga emas, bukan paksa mereka keluar dari rumah atau berhutang.
Terdapat ramai penduduk di Port Phillip, seperti Tanya*, yang menghadapi mimpi ngeri Majlis menuntut kadar yang terlalu tinggi daripada mereka kerana mengetahui bahawa dengan pendapatan tetap atau pencen yang kecil mereka tidak akan mampu membayar. Dalam kebanyakan kes, penduduk ini hanyalah mangsa yang tidak bersalah daripada majlis yang terlebih belanja dan kadar yang tidak berpatutan.
Sebagai contoh, pada tahun 1983 apabila Adrian membeli rumah pertamanya di Middle Park kadarnya ialah $500 setahun. Sekarang mereka adalah $5000 tetapi tahap perkhidmatan tidak meningkat dengan ketara. Penyelesaian Majlis kepada penduduk yang bergelut ini adalah dengan mencagarkan harta mereka kepada majlis atau menjual dan berpindah ke tempat lain. Majlis kemudian mempunyai kaveat di rumah mereka.
Majlis 'bantuan' yang sedikit memberi kepada mereka yang mempunyai kad pencen
Ramai penduduk bersara di Port Phillip adalah penyokong kuat komuniti mereka. Ramai yang dilahirkan dan dibesarkan di kawasan yang mereka tinggal sekarang dan dengan bangganya memanggil pinggir bandar kita sebagai rumah. Apabila majlis tidak henti-henti menaikkan kadar ke tahap yang tidak dilihat di bahagian lain di Melbourne, soalan mesti ditanya tentang keadilan sistem kadar yang memaksa warga tua untuk menggadaikan semula rumah mereka.
Kadar semasa Port Phillip yang tinggi menambah tekanan yang tidak perlu kepada warga emas kita dalam tahun yang sudah tertekan. Mereka hanya mahu secara senyap-senyap menjalani kehidupan mereka, dengan pendapatan tetap mereka, di rumah tempat mereka membesarkan keluarga mereka.
KAMI BERKATA- kami tidak sepatutnya bertolak ansur dengan layanan buruk terhadap warga emas kami dan kami menuntut supaya kadar untuk warga emas dipotong. Majlis membelanjakan berjuta-juta setiap tahun untuk projek yang diilhamkan dari segi ideologi remeh yang membazirkan berjuta-juta dolar kita dan hanya meningkatkan tekanan bagi mereka yang telah bersara. Dengan hampir 42% daripada semua pendapatan Majlis dibelanjakan untuk menggaji antara 800-900 penjawat awam majlis, lebih banyak daripada majlis jiran, satu sebab untuk kadar kami yang tinggi adalah jelas. Ramai nampaknya wujud untuk menulis laporan tanpa henti dan tidak terlibat secara langsung dalam menyediakan perkhidmatan. Ini adalah birokrasi yang mementingkan diri sendiri yang besar yang mempunyai banyak ruang untuk kecekapan dan produktiviti yang lebih baik supaya kita boleh menjaga orang yang terdedah dalam komuniti kita dengan lebih baik. Amal sebenar harus bermula dengan pembayar kadar warga emas kita yang merupakan penduduk jangka panjang di Kota Port Phillip.
Malu pada Ahli Majlis dan Majlis kita kerana meletakkan penduduk kita berhutang.
*Kisah Tanya adalah benar dan bergema di seluruh Port Phillip tetapi nama dan wajahnya telah ditukar untuk melindungi identitinya. Majlis memberi pilihan kepada pesara untuk menangguhkan pembayaran kadar mereka sehingga hartanah mereka dijual pada masa itu, mereka mengutip kadar yang belum dibayar serta faedah 5% setahun yang secara efektifnya merupakan gadai janji terbalik.
Majlis telah menerbitkan Draf Belanjawan 2021-22 mereka untuk perundingan masyarakat. Sekiranya anda prihatin dengan rancangan Majlis untuk menaikkan kadar sekali lagi dan anda belum melakukannya, hubungi Ahli Majlis berikut dan minta mereka untuk tidak menaikkan kadar dalam Belanjawan 2021-22 ketika mereka mengundi pada 23 Jun.
- Cr Baxter
Tim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 495 250 - Cr Copsey
Katherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au
0466 478 949 - Datuk Bandar 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 Ahli Majlis yang menyatakan secara terbuka bahawa mereka menyokong pembekuan kadar. Mereka adalah:
- Bon Bon
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
Apa lagi yang mesti anda ketahui?
Kami yakin Majlis mesti menjadi lebih cekap dalam memberikan perkhidmatan kepada masyarakat kita. Kami diberitahu oleh Majlis bahawa pembekuan kadar bermaksud perkhidmatan mesti dipotong tetapi kami mengatakan bahawa Majlis tidak perlu menyediakan laporan yang tidak mahu atau dibaca oleh siapa pun. Menulis laporan yang panjangnya 200 atau 300 halaman yang tidak dibaca oleh sesiapa pun bukanlah perkhidmatan. Sekiranya Ahli Majlis memilih untuk membekukan kadar maka Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif dan pasukannya perlu mengenal pasti kecekapan dan bukannya memotong perkhidmatan. Port Phillip Council menafikan terdapat masalah kadar di Port Phillip, tetapi para pembayar cukai hanya menyedari bahawa mereka membayar dua kali, tiga atau lebih kali harga yang dibayar untuk harta tanah bernilai serupa di Majlis tetangga. Council menggunakan kadar purata untuk menanda aras Port Phillip ke Majlis lain, tetapi kadar rata-rata mengelirukan dan menipu kerana kita mempunyai nisbah unit / pangsapuri ke rumah yang jauh lebih tinggi dan rata-rata condong ke arah nombor yang lebih rendah.
Rujuk Fakta Pemeriksaan di https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-c Majliss/
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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"Tanah tempat Linden New Art sekarang berdiri dibeli pada tahun 1870 oleh pendatang Yahudi Moritz Michaelis (1820-1902). Rumah besar Victoria ini dibina pada tahun 1871 oleh arkitek terkenal, Alfred Friedrich Kursteiner (1829-1897) dan kebun di sekitarnya dirancang oleh tukang kebun lanskap dan ahli botani, William Guilfoyle (1840-1912), yang juga terkenal merancang Taman Botani Diraja Melbourne. Michaelis menamakan rumah Linden yang bermaksud 'Pokok Kapur' dalam bahasa Jerman. " - https://www.lindenarts.org/about-us/
"Kami tidak hanya atlet. Kami adalah orang selepas semua, dan kadang-kadang anda perlu mengambil kembali langkah," kata gimnas Amerika Simone Biles pada Selasa kerana beliau meninggalkan arena Sukan Olimpik Tokyo.
Rabu ini, Biles juga mengundurkan diri dari bertanding di final gimnastik artistik individu pertama di Tokyo 2020, yang akan diadakan pada hari Khamis.
Dia belum mengesahkan sama ada dia akan turut serta pada hari-hari berikutnya akhir kepada orang-orang yang berkelayakan dalam Tokyo:. melompat dan bar tidak sekata (atas Ahad Ogos 1), solitaire (pada Isnin, 2 Ogos) dan rasuk kira-kira (pada Selasa, 30)
Walaupun tidak semua dunia mempunyai keterlihatan Biles atau kehidupan di bawah tekanan yang atlet adalah tertakluk kepada dalam pertandingan yang paling penting di dunia, isyarat atlet boleh menjadi pengajaran dan renungan untuk semua orang, menurut pakar kesihatan mental ditemuramah oleh BBC News Brazil.
"Hari ini terdapat lebih banyak perbincangan mengenai kesihatan mental dalam sukan, muzik, pendidikan ... dan fakta kerana ia dibincangkan tidak dapat menjelaskan masalah ini, "kata psikiatri klinikal LÃvia Castelo Branco.
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Rujukan Peta Google: -37.86419612298049, 144.9760729411019
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 Ahli Majlis - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin dan Crawford - tidak menghiraukan penduduk dan pembayar gaji.
Lima Ahli Majlis - memilih menentang pembekuan kadar semasa zaman Covid yang sukar ini. Kos untuk melakukan ini hanya $ 1.98 juta.
Lima Ahli Majlis - menolak pembekuan kadar, walaupun majlis meramalkan lebihan wang tunai $ 4.4 juta ditambah $ 2.3 juta dari harta tanah baru.
Lima Ahli Majlis - kemudian meningkatkan perbelanjaan sebanyak $ 1.35 juta untuk projek pemberian & peliharaan untuk kumpulan minoriti, yang memberikan sedikit untuk seluruh masyarakat.
KAMI KATA
Jauhkan politik daripada Port Phillip. Penduduk mendapat sedikit dari kadar yang terlalu tinggi yang kita bayar. Sudah tiba masanya untuk menuding jari kepada Majlis yang meningkatkan kadar kita, membuang wang dan menentang kepentingan penduduk dan pembayar gaji. Sekiranya Lima Ahli Majlis ini tidak dapat memilih pembekuan kadar semasa COVID bilakah 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.
Tanya 5 ahli majlis 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 Ahli Majlis - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin dan Crawford - tidak menghiraukan penduduk dan pembayar gaji.
Lima Ahli Majlis - memilih menentang pembekuan kadar semasa zaman Covid yang sukar ini. Kos untuk melakukan ini hanya $ 1.98 juta.
Lima Ahli Majlis - menolak pembekuan kadar, walaupun majlis meramalkan lebihan wang tunai $ 4.4 juta ditambah $ 2.3 juta dari harta tanah baru.
Lima Ahli Majlis - kemudian meningkatkan perbelanjaan sebanyak $ 1.35 juta untuk projek pemberian & peliharaan untuk kumpulan minoriti, yang memberikan sedikit untuk seluruh masyarakat.
KAMI KATA
Jauhkan politik daripada Port Phillip. Penduduk mendapat sedikit dari kadar yang terlalu tinggi yang kita bayar. Sudah tiba masanya untuk menuding jari kepada Majlis yang meningkatkan kadar kita, membuang wang dan menentang kepentingan penduduk dan pembayar gaji. Sekiranya Lima Ahli Majlis ini tidak dapat memilih pembekuan kadar semasa COVID bilakah 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.