From footpaths to galleries, librarians to school crossing supervisors, your rates fund the programs, assets and services that help make Boroondara a great place to live.
Council is responsible for delivering a wide range of high-quality services and managing more than $4.5 billion of community assets. The table below provides a snapshot of how we use your rates.
You can read more about our Budget 2024–25 priorities on our Council Budgets page.
What do your rates pay for?
For every $100 Council spends, we deliver:
$34.27: Capital works and priority projects
$14.63: Environment and waste management
$10.19: Parks, gardens and sportsgrounds
$8.56: Health, aged community and family services
$6.73: Library, arts and cultural services
$5.58: Planning and building
$5.62: Local laws enforcement
$4.29: Roads, footpaths, safety and drainage
$4.08: Communications and customer service
$2.41: Engineering and traffic
$1.63: Rates and property services
$1.12: Leisure, recreation and civic centres
$0.89: Economic development
Notes: Included in these service area figures is an allocation to cover corporate services, governance, risk management, building maintenance and public lighting.
In addition to these figures is $6.37 million to improve our environmental sustainability with a range of initiatives to minimise our environmental footprint in these service areas.
Excludes operating cost for 5 externally managed recreation centres.
Your rates notice is on its way
Rates notices will be in the post and email inboxes from late-July. You can make paying your rates easier with the following 2 options:
- Switch to eNotices, so you can view all your notices in one place. You can log in online or check your email.
- Set up direct debit with us, so you can ‘set and forget’ your payments. Direct debit also enables you to break down payments into 10 monthly instalments.
Find out more about how to pay your rates, set up a direct debit, or sign up for eNotices at our Pay your rates page.