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.

• Mặc dù có thêm chi phí mỗi năm, chúng tôi thấy sự suy giảm của các dịch vụ trong thành phố
• Ít chỗ đậu xe hơn
• Phí đậu xe đắt hơn và tiền phạt
• Dải mua sắm trở thành vùng chết
• Sự gia tăng người vô gia cư và bị ảnh hưởng bởi ma túy trên đường phố

• Đại diện cho cộng đồng
• Thúc đẩy trách nhiệm tài khóa và
• Tiền của người trả theo tỷ lệ theo yêu cầu được sử dụng cho các dịch vụ và tiện nghi của Hội đồng địa phương

• bền vững từ quan điểm tài chính, vì vậy cư dân bằng mọi cách có thể tiếp tục sống trong cộng đồng tuyệt vời của chúng tôi
• và chúng nâng cao khả năng sống của vùng ngoại ô của chúng tôi

• đại diện cho cộng đồng
• thúc đẩy trách nhiệm tài khóa và
• yêu cầu rằng các khoản tiền quý giá của người trả tiền được sử dụng cho hoạt động kinh doanh của hội đồng địa phương

Chúng tôi nói - cắt giảm lãi suất cho người cao niên, không buộc họ phải rời khỏi nhà hoặc nợ nần.

Có rất nhiều cư dân ở Port Phillip, như Tanya *, phải đối mặt với cơn ác mộng của Hội đồng đòi mức giá cắt cổ từ họ khi biết rằng với một khoản thu nhập cố định nhỏ hoặc lương hưu họ sẽ không bao giờ có thể trả được. Trong hầu hết các trường hợp, những cư dân này chỉ đơn giản là nạn nhân vô tội của các hội đồng bội chi và tỷ lệ không thể chi trả được.

Ví dụ, vào năm 1983 khi Adrian mua ngôi nhà đầu tiên của mình ở Middle Park, mức giá thuê là 500 đô la mỗi năm. Bây giờ chúng là $ 5000 nhưng mức độ dịch vụ không tăng lên đáng kể. Giải pháp của Hội đồng cho những cư dân đang gặp khó khăn này là đảo ngược thế chấp tài sản của họ cho hội đồng hoặc bán và chuyển đi nơi khác. Hội đồng sau đó có một cảnh báo về nhà của họ.

Hội đồng 'trợ giúp' đo lường cung cấp cho những người có thẻ hưu trí

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

Nhiều cư dân đã nghỉ hưu ở Port Phillip là những người vững chắc trong cộng đồng của họ. Nhiều người được sinh ra và lớn lên ở những khu vực hiện họ đang sống và tự hào gọi vùng ngoại ô của chúng ta là quê hương. Khi hội đồng không ngừng tăng tỷ giá đến mức không thấy ở các khu vực khác của Melbourne, các câu hỏi phải được đặt ra về tính công bằng của hệ thống tỷ giá buộc người cao tuổi phải thế chấp nhà của họ.

Mức giá cao hiện tại của Port Phillip đang gây thêm căng thẳng không cần thiết cho những người cao tuổi của chúng tôi trong một năm vốn đã căng thẳng. Họ chỉ muốn lặng lẽ sống cuộc sống của họ, với thu nhập cố định của họ, trong ngôi nhà mà họ đã nuôi gia đình họ.

CHÚNG TÔI NÓI- chúng tôi không nên dung thứ cho sự đối xử kinh khủng này đối với những người cao tuổi của chúng tôi và chúng tôi yêu cầu rằng mức giá cho người cao niên phải được cắt giảm. Hội đồng chi tiêu hàng triệu mỗi năm cho các dự án phù phiếm lấy cảm hứng từ hệ tư tưởng gây lãng phí hàng triệu đô la của chúng tôi và chỉ làm tăng áp lực cho những người đã nghỉ hưu. Với gần 42% tổng thu nhập của Hội đồng được chi cho việc sử dụng từ 800-900 công chức của hội đồng, nhiều hơn các hội đồng lân cận, một lý do cho tỷ lệ cao của chúng tôi là hiển nhiên. Nhiều người dường như tồn tại để không ngừng viết báo cáo và không tham gia trực tiếp vào việc cung cấp dịch vụ. Đây là một bộ máy quan liêu tự phục vụ khổng lồ có nhiều chỗ cho hiệu quả và cải thiện năng suất để chúng tôi có thể chăm sóc tốt hơn những người dễ bị tổn thương trong cộng đồng của chúng tôi. Tổ chức từ thiện thực sự nên bắt đầu với những người trả giá cao tuổi của chúng tôi, những người là cư dân lâu dài của Thành phố Port Phillip.

Xấu hổ cho các Ủy viên Hội đồng của chúng tôi và Hội đồng của chúng tôi vì đã đưa các cư dân của chúng tôi vào tình trạng nợ nần.

* Câu chuyện của Tanya là có thật và được truyền tụng khắp Port Phillip nhưng tên và khuôn mặt của cô đã được thay đổi để bảo vệ danh tính của mình. Hội đồng cung cấp cho người về hưu quyền lựa chọn hoãn thanh toán lãi suất của họ cho đến khi tài sản của họ được bán vào thời điểm đó, họ thu lãi suất chưa thanh toán cộng với lãi suất 5% / năm, đây thực sự là một hình thức thế chấp ngược lại.

Hội đồng đã công bố Dự thảo Ngân sách 2021-22 của họ để tham khảo ý kiến cộng đồng. Nếu bạn lo ngại về kế hoạch của Hội đồng để tăng tỷ lệ một lần nữa và bạn chưa làm như vậy, vui lòng liên hệ với các Ủy viên Hội đồng sau và yêu cầu họ không tăng tỷ lệ trong Ngân sách 2021-22 khi họ bỏ phiếu về đề nghị vào ngày 23 tháng 6.

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

Chỉ có bốn Ủy viên Hội đồng đã tuyên bố công khai rằng họ ủng hộ việc đóng băng tỷ giá. Họ đang:

• Trái phiếu Cr
  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

Những gì khác bạn nên biết?
Chúng tôi tin rằng Hội đồng phải trở nên hiệu quả hơn trong việc cung cấp dịch vụ cho cộng đồng của chúng tôi. Hội đồng cho biết chúng tôi bị đóng băng giá có nghĩa là phải cắt giảm các dịch vụ nhưng chúng tôi nói rằng Hội đồng không cần chuẩn bị các báo cáo mà không ai muốn hoặc không đọc. Viết một báo cáo dài 200 hoặc 300 trang mà không ai đọc không phải là một dịch vụ. Nếu các Ủy viên Hội đồng bỏ phiếu ủng hộ việc đóng băng lãi suất thì Giám đốc điều hành và nhóm của ông sẽ cần xác định hiệu quả hơn là cắt giảm dịch vụ. Hội đồng Port Phillip phủ nhận có vấn đề về giá ở Port Phillip, nhưng những người trả giá chỉ biết rằng họ đang phải trả gấp đôi, gấp ba lần hoặc nhiều hơn mức giá đã trả cho các tài sản có giá trị tương tự ở các Hội đồng lân cận. Hội đồng sử dụng tỷ lệ trung bình để so sánh Port Phillip với các Hội đồng khác, nhưng tỷ lệ trung bình gây hiểu lầm và lừa đảo bởi vì chúng tôi có tỷ lệ căn hộ / căn hộ so với nhà ở cao hơn nhiều và tỷ lệ đó nghiêng về trung bình theo một con số thấp hơn.

Tham khảo Kiểm tra sự thật tại https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/

UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2020: RoPP campaign successful in delaying new Bin Tax

We are pleased to see that the Bin Tax will not be introduced this financial year, according to Port Phillip’s updated web page.

Thanks to all for your help with our Bin Tax campaign!

The best way to ensure your rates are reduced to be in line with neighbouring councils, is to vote for a RoPP endorsed candidate at the upcoming October election. We will be releasing the exciting news about our endorsed candidates soon, so stay tuned.

• At the 4th December 2019 Council meeting, a “Waste and Amenity levy” was proposed to address the waste crisis, forecasted to add $64 million over the next 10 years to Council’s “rate cap challenge”. RoPP spoke at that meeting in opposition to the new Tax, unless the Council could provide more information.
• We finally received a written response from the CEO on July 2nd 2020, confirming that Council were considering options of how to fund the Bin Tax, including the levy being additional to existing rates.
• Our poster and leaflet campaign to stop the Bin Tax commenced on 30th July 2020.
• Council’s website still detailed the impending Bin Tax. Now those details have been removed, replaced instead with a statement about the deferral.
• Why would Council remove the details from their website? As of writing this, the minutes of the 4th December 2019 Council meeting where the Bin Tax was voted on, are also no longer available on their website. Further, we have discovered that almost 20 years of Council meeting agendas & minutes have been removed in the last week.
• Please refer to the end of this webpage for details of the Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies.

The facts and our transparency speak for themselves. The Council’s backdown on a new Bin Tax shows that our campaign has had an impact. Council have rightly recognised the harshness of introducing a new tax on top of the burden of existing rates, in a time of economic crisis.

Port Phillip Council is one of the highest spending councils in the state and are now proposing to introduce an additional Waste and Amenity levy on top of the exorbitant rates you already pay.
See https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/

So in addition to a 2% increase to total rates collected this year (the maximum allowable under the State government’s rate cap system), you would have to pay a levy for ‘Waste and Amenity’, “A BIN TAX” on this fundamental service. This would severely impact both ratepayers and residents at a time when many have lost their livelihoods, incomes and ability to pay.

Council claims that the reason they need to charge a new levy is because waste costs are rising at a greater pace than inflation. There are two issues with this:

1. Waste management, a core service of council, only accounts for 5.3% of the Port Phillip budget[1], meaning that even if this component increased by 10% per year, the effect on the overall budget would only be around 1-1.2%, well within the 2% rate cap.

2. Competent management should be able to absorb this fundamental service easily, by forecasting these cost issues and re-prioritising their budget accordingly. Instead, the majority of the 2% increase in general rates will go towards wage rises for staff, which council has stubbornly refused to address (or even acknowledge).

Council wants to take the easy way out yet again, by charging ratepayers a new BIN TAX instead of doing the hard work necessary to manage the budget.

The waste and amenity levy (BIN TAX) would sit outside the 2% annual rate cap imposed by the Essential Services Commission. This gives council the option to increase the levy by whatever amount it wishes, and you can be sure it will – council will use the levy to fund its inability to manage its own budget. Council describes this inability to live within their own means the ‘rate capping challenge’.

IT’S A NEW TAX ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING RATES

Councillors did not want to be held accountable at the ballot box for introducing a new tax this year, so have deferred its introduction until after the election. We are here to highlight the issue so that you have the chance to stop council by voting for an independent candidate that will vote against the BIN TAX and hold the council to account. Keep an eye on our website for an independent review of candidates running in the October election.

 We say:
1. ROPP does not support the introduction of a Waste and Amenity Levy in addition to the burden of existing rates. Council need to get the budget under control instead of taking the easy way out: a new Bin Tax

2. Now is not the time to impose new taxes on a struggling economy. It’s not fair and it needs to be stopped.

Essential Services Commission’s role in waste levies
Council can levy a new charge in addition to existing rates, just like two councils did in 2018-19. This is subject to the oversight of the Essential Services Commission, however Councils retain full autonomy to introduce new charges. Council can opt to introduce a waste levy in a revenue neutral way, reducing general rates by the same amount that the new levy raises. This is what Maribyrnong did in 2019-20.

As Port Phillip Council said themselves on the now removed ‘waste challenges’ webpage :
 “Council is also considering a proposal to introduce a waste and amenity levy, which would be a payment separate to Council rates to cover some, or all, of the costs incurred by council to deliver waste, recycling and cleansing services. This would enable Council to set a service rate or charge (levy) that’s in line with the true cost of the service.

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Thứ Tư tuần này, Biles cũng từ chức thi đấu trận chung kết thể dục nghệ thuật cá nhân đầu tiên ở Tokyo 2020, sẽ được tổ chức vào thứ Năm.

Anh ấy vẫn chưa xác nhận liệu mình có tham gia vào những ngày tiếp theo ở giải khác không trận chung kết với những người có trình độ ở Tokyo:. nhảy và quán bar không đồng đều (trên chủ nhật Tháng Tám 1), solitaire (trên Thứ Hai Tháng Tám 2) và chùm cân bằng (vào thứ Ba, 30)

Mặc dù không phải tất cả các thế giới có khả năng hiển thị của biles hoặc cuộc sống dưới áp lực mà các vận động viên phải chịu trong cuộc thi quan trọng nhất trên thế giới, cử chỉ của vận động viên có thể đóng vai trò như một bài học và suy nghĩ cho mọi người, theo các chuyên gia sức khỏe tâm thần được phỏng vấn bởi BBC News Brazil.

"Ngày nay, người ta nói nhiều hơn về sức khỏe tâm thần trong thể thao, âm nhạc, giáo dục ... và thực tế là Vì nó được thảo luận làm sáng tỏ vấn đề ", bác sĩ tâm thần lâm sàng Lívia Castelo Branco nói.

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

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng không liên lạc - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin và Crawford - thể hiện sự coi thường đối với cư dân và người trả giá.

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng - đã bỏ phiếu chống lại việc đóng băng tỷ giá trong thời gian Covid khó khăn này. Chi phí để làm điều này chỉ là 1,98 triệu đô la.

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng - đã từ chối việc đóng băng tỷ giá, mặc dù hội đồng dự báo thặng dư tiền mặt 4,4 triệu đô la cộng với 2,3 triệu đô la từ các bất động sản mới.

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng - sau đó đã tăng chi tiêu thêm 1,35 triệu đô la cho các dự án gia công & vật nuôi dành cho các nhóm thiểu số, cung cấp rất ít cho cả cộng đồng.

CHÚNG TÔI NÓI
Giữ chính trị khỏi Port Phillip. Cư dân nhận được rất ít cho mức giá cắt cổ mà chúng tôi phải trả. Đã đến lúc chỉ tay vào các Ủy viên Hội đồng đang tăng tỷ lệ của chúng tôi, lãng phí tiền bạc và làm việc chống lại lợi ích của cư dân và người trả tỷ lệ. Nếu Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng này không thể bỏ phiếu cho việc đóng băng tỷ giá trong COVID thì khi nào họ sẽ?

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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.

Hỏi 5 ủy viên hội đồng này

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

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng không liên lạc - Cunsolo, Baxter, Copsey, Martin và Crawford - thể hiện sự coi thường đối với cư dân và người trả giá.

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng - đã bỏ phiếu chống lại việc đóng băng tỷ giá trong thời gian Covid khó khăn này. Chi phí để làm điều này chỉ là 1,98 triệu đô la.

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng - đã từ chối việc đóng băng tỷ giá, mặc dù hội đồng dự báo thặng dư tiền mặt 4,4 triệu đô la cộng với 2,3 triệu đô la từ các bất động sản mới.

Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng - sau đó đã tăng chi tiêu thêm 1,35 triệu đô la cho các dự án gia công & vật nuôi dành cho các nhóm thiểu số, cung cấp rất ít cho cả cộng đồng.

CHÚNG TÔI NÓI
Giữ chính trị khỏi Port Phillip. Cư dân nhận được rất ít cho mức giá cắt cổ mà chúng tôi phải trả. Đã đến lúc chỉ tay vào các Ủy viên Hội đồng đang tăng tỷ lệ của chúng tôi, lãng phí tiền bạc và làm việc chống lại lợi ích của cư dân và người trả tỷ lệ. Nếu Năm Ủy viên Hội đồng này không thể bỏ phiếu cho việc đóng băng tỷ giá trong COVID thì khi nào họ sẽ?

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.