Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) English French German Greek Hindi Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Malay Spanish Vietnamese Print Council set to raise rates again in 2021-22 Budget! Council have published their Draft 2021-22 Budget for community consultation. If you are concerned about Council’s plan to increase rates yet again and you have not already done so, please contact the following Councillors and ask them to not to increase rates in the 2021-22 Budget when they vote on the motion on 23rd June. Cr BaxterTim.Baxter@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0466 495 250Cr CopseyKatherine.Copsey@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0466 478 949Mayor CrawfordLouise.Crawford@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0466 514 643Cr CunsoloHeather.Cunsolo@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0466 227 014Cr MartinPeter.Martin@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0435 390 821Only four Councillors have publicly stated they support a rates freeze. They are: Cr BondAndrew.Bond@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0481 034 028Cr ClarkeRhonda.Clark@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0435 098 738Cr PearlMarcus.Pearl@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0466 448 272Cr Sirakoff Christina.Sirakoff@portphillip.vic.gov.au 0435 419 930What else should you know?We believe Council must become more efficient in delivering services to our community. We are told by Council that a rate freeze means services must be cut but we say Council does not need to prepare reports that nobody wants or reads. Writing a report that is 200 or 300 pages long that nobody reads is not a service. If Councillors vote in favour of a rate freeze then the CEO and his team will need to identify efficiencies rather than cut services. Port Phillip Council denies there is a rate problem in Port Phillip, but ratepayers are only painfully aware they are paying twice, three or more times the rates paid for properties of similar value in neighbouring Councils. Council uses average rates to benchmark Port Phillip to other Councils, but average rates are misleading and deceptive because we have a much higher ratio of units / apartments to houses and that skews to average towards a lower number. Refer to Fact Check at https://ropp.org.au/fact-check-how-high-are-port-phillip-rates-compared-to-neighbouring-councils/ Contributor Publisher 90, Publisher, Attribution https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/council-services/rates-and-valuations/your-rates-notice https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/council-services/parking-in-port-phillip/parking-permits/residential-parking-permits https://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/services/rates/rates-and-charges https://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/services/rubbish-and-recycling/waste-services-and-2020-21-pricing https://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/services/parking/residential-parking-permits https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/council/30_june_2020_special_meeting_of_council_minutes.pdf https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/waste-and-recycling https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/residential-parking-permits https://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/Services/Rates-and-property/How-your-rates-are-calculated https://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/Services/Waste-and-recycling/Request-a-bin https://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/Services/Parking/Parking-permits/Resident-parking-permits
