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Cr Keith Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Regional Council held its final Budget workshop today, with Mayor Wayne Kratzmann<\/strong> warning “hard decisions have to be made”.<\/p>\n

One of these hard decisions appears to be the introduction of quarterly bills, which means ratepayers would receive four bills per year if the suggestion is adopted.<\/p>\n

Cr Kratzmann said quarterly bills would “assist ratepayers to manage their own budgets”.<\/p>\n

Another hard decision will be a rise in rates, although no one from Council is saying how much.<\/p>\n

Cr Kratzmann said the SBRC was in the same boat as other councils where revenue from building development and grants from the State Government had dropped.<\/p>\n

Council will bring down its 2012\/13 Budget in mid-July and says it will be framed around making it “financially sustainable in the long term”.<\/p>\n

Cr Keith Campbell<\/strong> said “the impost for 2012\/13 will ease the burden in respect of future rate increases”.<\/p>\n

Council will also undertake a full review of current services to see if more savings can be made to offset future rate increases. This would be on top of $10 million of savings in Council’s operations achieved over the past four years since amalgamation.<\/p>\n

Crs Kratzmann and Campbell both blamed the carbon tax for rates going up.<\/p>\n

“No matter which way the carbon tax is sliced and diced it still increases rates,” Cr Campbell said.<\/p>\n

Council also said land valuations issued by the State Government would impact on the rate increase.<\/p>\n

In March, SBBiz reported (March 26, 2012)\u00a0that land values had remained relatively constant across the South Burnett with no change in the median value of industrial, multi-unit, single unit residential, rural residential or primary production land. Commercial land actually dropped 1 per cent.<\/p>\n

However Cr Campbell explained that for ratings purposes, Council averaged valuations over three years to even out \u00a0fluctuations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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