Cut-price rates: Greater Dandenong residents spared despite council deficit

Cut-price rates: Greater Dandenong residents spared despite council deficit

Despite financial head-winds, Greater Dandenong Council proposes to shield residents with a sub-cap rates rises of less than 1 per cent in its draft 2025-’26. Under the plan, the average household’s rates and waste charges bill will rise by $13 – (or 0.79 per cent) – next year. The median bill will be about $1550 – including a $516 waste charge. The rates component is just a median 0.1 per cent rise – well shy of the State Government’s 3 per cen…