Why so high?
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I was just about to pay this year’s rates when I thought I might see how they compared with those paid by friends and relatives in other areas.
This year’s rates from Eurobodalla Shire Council total $3101.87, which I thought was a bit steep.
But a friend who has a house in one of Canberra’s most prestigious suburbs, and which is valued significantly more than mine, only has to pay $2114.89.
A relative with a house in Newtown, Sydney, where the going prices are in excess of $1.3-$1.6 million, has to pay Marrickville Council $1405.54.
Can someone please explain why Eurobodalla’s rates are so high?
And don’t say it’s the cost of services.
Marrickville Council provides a much wider range of services, has major problems maintaining roads and other infrastructure and so on.
I never thought it particularly efficient, but it’s certainly a lot cheaper.
Is it because Council seems determined to keep on digging up parking areas and roads so it can fill them up and then dig them up again, such as Moruya swimming pool, North Street traffic lights (ignored by most pedestrians and a traffic jam waiting to happen), Bunnings’ exit to highway, old Princes Highway, etc, etc, and so forth.
Russell Schneider, Broulee