The Revenue and Rating Plan seeks to identify each source of revenue to be included in the budget and the policy rationale / assumptions that underpin these.

Council provides a number of services and facilities to our community, and in doing so, must collect revenue to cover the cost of providing these services and facilities. Council’s revenue sources include:

• Rates and charges
• Grants from other levels of government
• Statutory fees and fines
• User fees
• Cash and non-cash contributions from other parties (ie developers, community groups)
• Interest from investments

Council provides a wide range of services to the community, often for a fee or charge. The nature of these fees and charges generally depends on whether they relate to statutory or discretionary services. Some of these, such as statutory planning fees are set by Victorian Government statute and are commonly known as regulatory fees. In these cases, Council usually has no control over service pricing. However, in relation to other services, Council has the ability to set a fee or charge, and will set that fee based on the principles outlined in this revenue and rating plan.

Following community consultation the foundation Revenue and Rating Plan will be adopted by Council on 29 June 2021. This plan will continue to be developed and reviewed during 2021.