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City rates to rise by 3.5 per cent

Jaime ShurmerWeekend Kwinana Courier

Security services will get a boost of nearly $200,000, and residents will have the opportunity to get a bigger 360-litre bin for recyclables for a one-off cost of $50.

Refuse levies to have bins emptied for the normal-sized bins will be $340 and a minimum environmental levy of $90 will be applied to each property.

Residential rates will rise by 3.5 per cent. Past and present rates will be used to revamp the City's website, and councillor fees are set to jump this year.

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Last budget, the mayoral allowance was set at $60,000 with $15,000 directed to the deputy and a total of $183,500 spent on meeting fees for all councillors, plus further travel and communications allowances, bringing the total councillor remuneration to $288,750.

This budget, after a review of fees by the Salary and Allowances Tribunal, councillors will get just over $30,000 in attendance fees.

The mayor's annual attendance fee will rise to $46,350 in addition to an annual mayoral allowance of $87,550. The deputy's remuneration will rise more than $6000 to $21,887 and councillors will have an information and communications technology allowance of $3500.

Short-term loans will be raised by $5.5 million to $8 million, as the City pushes ahead with key projects including Calista's Destination Park, $191,360 for solar panels for Darius Wells Library and $2.2 million to renovate the City's administration building.

The City is sticking by its plan to impose a 10 per cent increase on the "Large Scale General Industry and Service Commercial" category, despite negative feedback from affected industries.