2026–2027 draft Annual Budget
Our draft Annual Budget 2026–2027 carefully balances investment in community priorities with responsible financial management.
This draft budget delivers the second-year actions of our Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025–2029. It focuses on building resilience and improving the health, wellbeing and quality of life of our community.
In developing this draft budget, we carefully considered feedback from almost 600 community members about your needs, values and priorities. This is in addition to the 1,100 community members who shared their thoughts to inform the development of our Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan.
We brought consultation forward in July to August 2025, giving you the opportunity to shape priorities from the very start of the process and genuinely influence this budget.
The draft budget is now available for your review before it goes to Council to adopt in June 2026.
View the draft Annual Budget 2026–2027.
2025–2026 Annual Budget
The Annual Budget 2025–2026 was adopted at the Council Meeting on Monday 23 June 2025.
Read about the Annual Budget 2025-2026 in our news article "Delivering for our community".
The budget details how rates will be spent in 2025–2026 to deliver your priorities as outlined in the Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025–2029 including the delivery and maintenance of Council services and facilities.
The budget has been informed by 1,100 people who told us what was important to them and a representative community panel who helped us theme that feedback. This panel helped shape our new Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan and this budget.
This year the budget includes:
- $122.4 million investment into services and facilities
- $58 million investment into capital works projects.
In addition, the budget highlights the year one actions from our new Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025–2029 including:
- supporting our local economy
- building capacity of our local sporting clubs
- working towards net zero emissions by 2040
- ensuring customers have access to relevant and timely information
- working towards improving our public lighting
- reviewing our housing strategy to prepare for upcoming changes to housing targets.
In line with the state government's Fair Go Rates System, overall rates revenue will increase by 3%.
Supporting information
- Council and Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025–2029
- 2025–2035 Financial Plan
- 2025–2029 Revenue and Rating Plan [PDF]
- Broad community engagement report [PDF]
- Deliberative panel engagement report [PDF]
Previous annual budgets
Download and view our previous annual budgets below.
- 2024–2025 Annual Budget [PDF]
- 2023–2024 Annual Budget [PDF]
- 2022–2023 Annual Budget [PDF]
- 2021–2022 Annual Budget [PDF]
- 2020–2021 Annual Budget [PDF]
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