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Rate rise anger
FURIOUS farmers have urged Glenelg Shire to reconsider its proposed rate hike amid fears landholders will be forced from their properties if increases continue.
FURIOUS farmers have urged Glenelg Shire to reconsider its proposed rate hike amid fears landholders will be forced from their properties if increases continue.
About 70 rural residents attended a council meeting on Tuesday night, the first hour of which was devoted to questions from the gallery.
Lake Mundi resident Kevin Stark warned a higher rate in the dollar for primary producers would increase his annual council contribution by an unsustainable 18.8 per cent.
He's particularly angry that owners of blue gum plantations are set to pay 10 per cent less than last financial year, a shift the council attributes to decreasing land values.
"The shire has to Cheap Supra Canada get the money from somewhere and I think (farmers) are being forced to pay for a shortfall," he said. "I dispute that our (property) valuations have gone up 12 per cent, but that's what they're working on."
Mr Stark told the meeting he would Nike Shox R4 Women be charged $58 a day in rates if the budget was passed in its current form.
"I don't think Nike Shox Rivalry Mens Running Shoes anybody, the councillors included, realise how much we pay in rates," he said.
Glenelg Shire mayor Gilbert Wilson said the budget, which proposed a 9.5 per cent increase Mk Handbags Canada in overall rate revenue, would offer residents widespread benefits.
Stage one of the Portland Bay Coastal Infrastructure Plan is among projects to be tackled, along with design work for a Casterton child care centre and $5.8 million worth of road upgrades.
There was little time to implement the shifts farmers wanted, Cr Wilson Womens Nike Free said. "If council wants to go down that road, whether it's changing the differential rate or adding a municipal change for this budget process, we would need to go through the consultation process again," he said.
"I don't wish to sound harsh with that (farming) sector, but other areas in the past have had significant rises where they've Ralph Lauren Shirts For Women had to pay huge increases, like Nelson and Bridgewater, as well as other houses along the coastline."
Mr Stark's wife, Maryanne, said farmers would have Nike Free Run 2 Black little incentive to stay on the land if high costs continued.
"We've been farming here for many, many years and hope that successive generations will be here also, but the way these imposts are being put upon us it's going to make it very hard," she said. That would then be able to reduce the rate burden on our sector."
"This process that we should go through, I believe, is probably better done during the next financial year to gain a better system, one that the whole community has been consulted on.
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