Cardinia Shire Council has adopted its 2023–24 Budget, following a second round of community input into the draft document in May this year.

We received a total of 286 submissions from the community during the budget development process from December 2022 to May 2023 which were considered along with a range of other factors outlined during the consultation process.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide feedback.

The adopted 23/24 budget can be found here: 23-24 Annual Budget

Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide feedback on the 23/24 draft Council budget.

The consultation details can be found in the full report on the right-hand side of the screen in the document library.

Council is considering your feedback as it finalises the budget. Once the budget is finalised, it will be made available on this page after the 26 June.

Thanks to all who participated in the first round of engagement.

We asked you to tell us 3 service areas where you would like us to allocate more money in the budget, and 3 areas where you would like us to allocate less. You told us…….

You would like LESS money allocated in the budget towards:

Our Councillors thank you for your contribution to the first round of engagement which has been taken into account in preparing the draft 23/24 Council budget along with a range of other considerations which impact on budget decisions such as:

• Feedback from earlier community engagement
• Annual CPI movement and enterprise agreement requirements
• Capital budget changes
• New or updated service contracts
• Council fees and charges review
• Grant income funding confirmations
• New legislative requirements and government policy changes
• Changes in population
• Rate cap announcement
• Statutory fees and fines increases
• Utility (gas, electricity, water) price movements
• Macro-economic conditions e,g, economic growth, financial markets, inflation, interest rates, supply chain disruption, natural disasters, international conflicts etc

The draft 23/24 Council budget in the document library on the right hand side of the screen. The draft budget proposes:

Please complete the survey below and provide us with your feedback on the draft 23/24 budget. The survey is open until 21 May 2023.

We will consider your feedback as we finalise the budget to be adopted in June.

If you provide feedback, please click on the yellow ‘Follow’ button at the top of this page to stay up to date with the budget development.

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The annual budget funds a range of services to meet the diverse needs of our community and to deliver the community priorities outlined in our Council Plan.

We are now seeking community feedback as we prepare the draft 2023-24 annual budget to continue to deliver on the Council Plan.

Please complete the survey to provide us with your feedback to help shape the 23/24 budget.