Central Coast Council’s Special Variation submission is now available for review and public submissions direct to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART). 

IPART has advised it will receive public submissions from today to 7 March and submissions can be made via IPART’s website at ipart.nsw.gov.au. Council assures residents and ratepayers that their feedback made direct to Council is also being provided to IPART. 

Council encourages anyone who wishes to make a submission to IPART to review the background materials available on Council’s website Your Voice Our Coast, including: 

• Information brochure
• Information video 
• Fact Sheet – Productivity Improvements Fact Sheet 
• Engagement Report – Maintaining Services and Rates
• FAQs
• Strategic documents – Revised Community Strategic Plan; Delivery Program 2022-2025 (including Operational Plan 2022-23); Resourcing Strategy, which includes the Long-Term Financial Plan, Workforce Management Strategy, and Revised Asset Management Strategy; and Fees and Charges 2022-23

Council’s submission to IPART is to maintain rates at their current levels for additional seven years, ten years in total to 2031. The Council made the decision to apply on 3 February 2022 following an extensive community awareness and engagement program since the end of September 2021. This does not mean a rate increase as the temporary Special Variation of 15% (including rate peg) determined by IPART in May 2021 is already included in the rates which have been applied for the 2021-22 financial year.  

For more information, go to yourvoiceourcoast.com/servicesandrates

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