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South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 4, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Regional Council has no plans to introduce any new levies in this year’s Budget, Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said today.<\/p>\n

He said any claims the SBRC was thinking of introducing new levies were “simply wrong”.<\/p>\n

“Last Friday in my State Of The Region speech at a charity breakfast in Kingaroy, I briefly mentioned that sewerage charges will probably be rising in this year’s budget,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is because Council needs to replace the Kingaroy Waste Water Treatment Plant soon.<\/p>\n

“Depending on what the final cost is, we’ll be borrowing between $8 million and $16 million to complete this project. And the cost of repaying that loan will be included in Council’s sewerage charges.”<\/p>\n

The Mayor said the South Burnett currently has five separate schemes – in Murgon, Wondai, Kingaroy, Nanango and Blackbutt – and when amalgamation occurred it was decided they’d all be put into a single pool for ratings purposes to ensure uniform charging across the region.<\/p>\n

The effect of this “pooling” was that smaller towns – like Blackbutt, Wondai and Murgon – have had the cost of their sewerage schemes subsidised by Kingaroy and Nanango since 2008.<\/p>\n

“I can understand that some residents in our smaller towns may feel they shouldn’t be paying for the Kingaroy Waste Water Treatment Plant to be replaced,” Mayor Kratzmann said.<\/p>\n

“But they’re forgetting that Kingaroy and Nanango residents have been paying for the smaller towns for the last six years.<\/p>\n

“And if they hadn’t, sewerage costs for our smaller towns would be a lot higher than they currently are.”<\/p>\n

The size of the rise in sewerage charges won’t be known until a tender for the work is obtained.<\/p>\n

At last month’s Council meeting the SBRC short-listed four companies to tender for the project (Aquatec Maxcon Pty Ltd, John Holland Queensland Pty Ltd, Transfield Services Australia Pty Ltd \/ Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd and Tenix Australia Pty Ltd).<\/p>\n

A final tender is expected to be let before June 30.<\/p>\n

However, on Friday the Mayor speculated the rise could be “about $100”.<\/p>\n

“Something that’s also been overlooked in all of this is that residents who aren’t connected to any of these sewerage schemes won’t be paying anything,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That includes just about all our smaller towns and villages and nearly all our rural residents.”<\/p>\n

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