OBERON Council is expecting to raise more than $180,000 from its next ordinary rate rise as a new financial year looms.
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And it says it will put the majority of the money into improving rural freight transport routes in the area.
Oberon Council adopted the Operational Plan 2017/18 at its ordinary meeting last week after the draft plan, its fees and charges and rating structures were placed on public exhibition from May 17 to June 13 and community meetings were held at various locations.
In 2014, following community consultation, council applied to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal for a special rate variation (SRV) of 34.35 per cent over five years on ordinary rates.
The SRV for 2017/18 will be 6.95pc, which will include the 1.5pc local government rate peg.
Council says it raised $171,947 through the SRV during the 2016/17 financial year, using part of the funds for grading, gravel resheeting, drainage improvements and road widening.
A total of $144,436 was used for improvements to Dog Rocks Road and Campbells River Road and one per cent, or $1719, was allocated towards the completion of council's infrastructure asset management plan.
Council is expecting to raise $182,221 in SRV funding during 2017/18, 84 per cent of which it says will be spent on upgrading heavily used rural freight transport routes such as Dog Rocks, Lowes Mount, Hazelgrove, Beaconsfield, Sewells Creek, Campbells River, Burraga and Abercrombie roads.
The Operational Plan 2017/18 also includes capital expenditure of $954,216 for urban streets and sealed and unsealed rural roads.
Council has allocated $907,000 for plant replacement, $162,000 for annual water capital upgrades, $215,000 for a water treatment plant carbon filter upgrade, $100,000 for water meter replacement and $842,816 for the sewage treatment plant.