Liverpool Plains Shire Council has decided to scrap plans for a rate rise.
With several projects on the table for the year, Mayor Andrew Hope says now isn’t the time.
“With all the major projects we’ve got on the go and the funding we’ve been successful with we’ll have enough work on our plate without trying to take on anything else, so we figured there’s no point putting a rate rise through if we can’t deliver anything to the community,” he says.
With farmers currently battling drought, he says a rate rise is the last thing they need, but isn’t ruling it out for the future.
“Look it’s very hard to say, it will depend on a lot of things, on how successful we are with grants, and what will come out of our new budgeting system when we get to it, but at this stage, we don’t believe there’s a need.”
