Share your ideas for Council's budget

Council would like to hear about your priorities and ideas for consideration as part of the 2025-26 Budget and for Council’s 10 Year Capital Works Plan. To share your ideas, please complete our "submit an idea" survey by 31 January 2025.

In developing the budget, we look at what funds are needed to continue our operations and maintain or renew our assets and infrastructure. We also consider any requests from our community members that would require funding.

The bigger picture

The budget considers the strategic requirements of our long term plans, such as the 10 Year Capital Works Plan, Long Term Financial Plan and Council's Asset Plan. These plans are reviewed every year as part of the budget process.

Our Asset Plan was developed in 2023 in consultation with the community to keep our assets in a fit for purpose state that meets community expectations.

New budget initiatives or ideas are also reviewed against their alignment to the Council Plan 2021-2025. Shortly after each election, Councillors work together to develop a Council Plan setting out the main strategic objectives for their 4-year term. The current Council Plan runs from 2021 to 2025 and has 8 strategic objectives. Please take a look and see if your idea lines up with one of these objectives. This is due for review in June 2025.

You can access both plans in the document section of this page, as well as a one-page summary of the Council plan.

Next steps

All submitted ideas will be considered as we draft the new budget. The draft will be presented to Council for formal adoption as the Proposed 2025-26 Budget.

Once the Proposed 2025-26 Budget is adopted, it will be made available for feedback in a formal consultation process taking place in April and May 2025. Following a review of feedback, the final 2025-26 Budget will be presented to Council for endorsement on 24 June 2025.