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Property portfolio chair
Cr Terry Fleischfresser<\/figcaption><\/figure>June 26, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cr Terry Fleischfresser has praised the Council’s 2018-19 Budget, saying it was ‘the Budget we have to have’.<\/p>\n

The Budget, handed down on Monday, will impose an average 2.5 per cent rate rise on residential property owners.<\/p>\n

However, rural property owners could face rises as high as 6 per cent this year after the Council took a decision to axe the $200 a year Road Levy and incorporate it into the general rate.<\/p>\n

The move will tie the levy to property valuations, and means that in future rural landholders will pay more towards road maintenance than town dwellers.<\/p>\n

It also means the levy now has the potential to rise above $200 in future years.<\/p>\n

“Good financial management is the key to local delivery,” Cr Fleischfresser said.<\/p>\n

“This is a Budget I believe meets the concerns and visions expressed to me by the community, identifying the planned income and expenditure.<\/p>\n

“With a current backlog of road maintenance standing in excess of $10 million and annual depreciation of $13 million, it (is) difficult to find the increased funds to really address the list of priorities that the public require without increasing rates.”<\/p>\n

Cr Fleischfresser said the Council had invested heavily in collecting up-to-date data to enable better insight into its day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n

“There will be no gain without pain.<\/p>\n

“We may not like it, but this is the Budget we have to have so Council can focus on the priority items you as a community have asked for,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Arts portfolio chair
Cr Danita Potter<\/figcaption><\/figure>Cr Danita Potter said this year’s Budget was the result of audits undertaken on Council operations over the past two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Before the election we had no idea what was going to be the outcome of the audits that the public wanted,” Cr Potter said.<\/p>\n

“Since having them done, we realised that the position we were in was not the best.<\/p>\n

“For this reason, tough decisions were made, but not lightly.”<\/p>\n

Cr Danita Potter said one bright side to this year’s Budget is that the Council has managed to expand its budget for the Regional Arts Development Fund to $15,000.<\/p>\n

Cr Potter said she felt the future of the arts in the region was “in a great space now”.<\/p>\n

“It has been hard work to start seeing some positive outcomes, but everything needs a starting point and ours starts with one piece of art in the Kingaroy forecourt,” Cr Potter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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