Brisbane’s ratepayers will pay an extra $1.50 per week on average - or 3.45 per cent in their general rates - under the $4.3 billion, pre-election budget handed down by Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner on Wednesday.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner: “We want to make sure we are not the victims of our own success.”The general rate increase is half Brisbane’s inflation rate, which Schrinner said was a council compromise in response to cost-of-living concerns.“Our strategy of making green waste recycling bins even cheaper is also squarely aimed at helping Brisbane households gear up for a bigger roll-out of our food waste recycling program,” Schrinner said.
Schrinner with a model of an EVCat, which would be smaller than a CityCat but larger than a KittyCat.“Some have already suggested the Mount Coot-tha site could be transformed from a barren quarry into a world-class environmental precinct similar to the Eden Project in Cornwall in the United Kingdom,” Schrinner said.$141 million over four years to convert Victoria Park Golf Course into Barrambin Botanic Gardens.
Council’s borrowings for 2023-24 - which were proposed to be $600 million - have dropped to $395 million and are proposed to drop to $245 million in 2025-26.A new CityGlider will connect the planned Olympic athletes village at Hamilton Northshore to Woolloongabba, which is being“We want to make sure we are not the victims of our own success,” Schrinner said.
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