Draft Revenue and Rating Plan 2025

Have Your Say on the draft Revenue and Rating Plan.

What is a Revenue and Rating Plan?

The revenue raised by a local government is for delivering services and infrastructure to benefit those providing the revenue – the local community. The Revenue and Rating Plan outlines the sources of revenue required to fund Council activities and how the funding burden will be apportioned between ratepayers and other users of Council facilities and services.

The purpose of the Plan is to determine the most appropriate and affordable approach for Council in conjunction with other income sources to adequately finance the objectives in the Council Plan. The draft Plan has been developed with consideration to the what we heard during the extensive engagement process for the 2025/26 budget and Council Plan 2025-29.

What's included?

There are 10 objectives proposed within the Plan relating to income sources such as rate cap compliance, the fees and charges cost recovery approach, and an action to review and refine the differential rates categories within the 2025/26 financial year.

In particular, this Plan outlines decisions that Council has made in relation to rating options available to it under the Local Government Act 2020 and Local Government Act 1989 to ensure the fair and equitable distribution of rates across property owners. It also identifies the principles that are used in decision making for other revenue sources such as fees and charges.

Submission were made using the submission form on this page with hard copy forms are available from any Council Customer Service Locations. Written submissions were able to be forwarded to dhol@glenelg.vic.gov.au or hand delivered to any of our Customer Service Locations addressed to David Hol, Director Corporate Services.