Councillor Don Palmer Providing Local Leadership & Working for You

Annual Business Plan & Budget Adopted.

Last Night Council endorsed the 2013-14 Annual Business Plan and budget.The Business, if you have not already seen it, will be posted (if not already) shortly on the Council web site.Goodwood South fares well in the Business Plan again with the key project of...

Budget Time and your rates

The Budget, which has been out for public consultation will now be finalized and presented in June to Council for approval.Our rate revenue will probably have to increase 4.5% to fund the programs we have on our books and to retire some debt. Your individual rate may...

Budget out for Public Consultation

Council’s 2013-14 budget has passed it’s first test. Council agreed in principle the budget as formulated over two workshops.It is now out for public consultation as advertised in the Eastern Courier. A public forum is expected to be held in the Civic...

Taking Control of our Budget

In answer to the requests of a number of Elected Members (me included) our CEO has organised a briefing tomorrow to avail us an opportunity to understand the operational budget of Council.This is where the majority of our spend occurs and traditionally the...