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Your rates at work

Your rates are used to fund a wide range of services, build and maintain facilities and run programs in the local community.

Around 60% of the money that we need to deliver all of this comes from rates.

• You can find out more about our planned spending for this financial year in our current budget.
  

• To find out more about your options for paying your rates, visit our pay your rates page.

• To download the ‘Your rates at work’ brochure, click here.

For every $100 of revenue, we spend...

Figures based on the 2024-25 budget.

Rubbish and waste

$7.77

Community safety

$7.07

Parks and sporting facilities

$23.05

Community and family

$3.70

Infrastructure and projects

$25.82

Cardinia Shire Council ​acknowledges and pays respect to ​the traditional custodians of these ​lands, the Bunurong and ​Wurundjeri people.