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Budget 2024/25

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Each year Council prepares a budget which details income expected from various sources such as government grants, fees and charges and property rates and the funds available to deliver services, key actions from the Council Plan and to undertake capital works projects as well as maintain and renew essential infrastructure..

Council adopted the 2024/25 budget at its 25 June 2024 Council meeting along with the updated Council Plan 2021-2035 (Year 4) and Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan.

In developing the annual budget, Council undertook extensive community consultation, with community members given the opportunity to provide input into what they’d like to see in the draft budget and again when the draft was placed on public exhibition. You can read the findings of this consultation by clicking on the tabs below.

The suite of budget documents can be viewed or downloaded from the side panel on the right, or below if viewing via mobile device.

Budget Highlights

We've prepared a highlights package which you can view below. (To make the presentation bigger, hit the full screen icon in the black footer)

Pre-budget survey - summary of findings

Prior to starting work on the draft budget, Council sought community input via an online survey which was open from 17 October, 2023 until 20 December 2023.

This pre-budget engagement is the primary consultation for the budget build and is timed to allow Councillors and staff to consider the suggestions prior to the draft budget being prepared.

Each service manager reviews the community input to help to inform their annual planning process. Budget managers and Council’s executive team review the community feedback in relation to each service.

The feedback is provided to Councillors prior to the Councillor budget workshops.

View or download the 2024/25 pre-budget survey findings.(PDF, 2MB)

Budget submissions - themes and responses

Council invited submissions on the draft budget and associated documents following its May 2024 Council meeting.

A total of eight submissions were received following the public exhibition period, providing a range of feedback for Council to consider.

You can read the Council report as well as the submissions (names redacted) in the Council meeting agenda. This specific report starts on page 18 of the agenda.

View previous years budgets.