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Latrobe City Council seeks community input for 2025/26 Budget Priorities and Projects until 26 November 2024
Latrobe City Council invites community input on the 2025/26 Annual Budget, seeking feedback on services, priorities, and potential projects. Submit your views by 5pm, 26 November 2024, via the online platform.
To help inform the 2025/26 Annual Budget, Latrobe City Council is inviting community members to have their say on what services and programs they value most and how the Budget could be allocated, balancing competing priorities and available resources. The Budget funds delivery of quality services and capital works across Latrobe City. Council also wants to hear about any specific projects community members would like considered as part of the Budget process or ideas about how funds may be spent across the municipality.
Latrobe City Council invites community input on the 2025/26 Budget, seeking feedback on priorities, services, programs, and potential projects for funding allocation
Help shape 2025/26 budget
CEO of Latrobe City Council, Steven Piasente, encouraged people to have their say, to help council gain a greater understanding of aspirations for the Budget. "In less than three minutes, you can complete a survey and provide your feedback on what areas you would prioritise in the 2025/26 Annual Budget."
"It's important to council that we provide people with the opportunity to help shape the Budget before it's drafted. Council operates a significant Budget, which provides over 70 services to the community and on average invests over $30 million in capital works programs across the municipality each year," said Mr Piasente.
Community members are invited to submit their Budget feedback via council's Have Your Say engagement platform.Submissions close 5pm on 26 November 2024.
Pictures from Latrobe City Council Facebook page.
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