Adoption of Valuation and Declaration of Rates

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the Council held on Tuesday 18 June 2024, the Council resolved as follows:

1.  Adopted for rating purposes, for the financial year ending 30 June 2025, the most recent valuations of the Valuer-General of the Capital Value of land within the area of the Council, and specifies that the total of the values that are to apply within the area is $2,629,401,060 of which $2,590,571,392 is rateable.

2. Declared differential rates for the year ending 30 June 2025 on rateable land within its area, based upon the capital value of the land and varying according to land use as follows:
a)  0.3600 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Residential;
b)  0.3749 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Commerical - Shop;
c)  0.3876 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Commerical - Office;
d)  0.3316 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Commercial - Other;
e)  0.3373 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Industry - Light;
f)   0.4161 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Industry - Other;
g)  0.1612 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Primary Production;
h)  0.2710 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Vacant Land;  and
i)   0.4611 cents in the dollar for all rateable land within the area with a land use of Other.

3. Declared a fixed charge of $200.00 against each separate piece of rateable land within the Council area for the year ending 30 June 2025.

4. Imposed an annual service charge based on the level of usage of the service and varying according to whether the land is vacant or occupied on all land to which Council provides or makes available the prescribed service of Community Wastewater Management Systems for the year ending 30 June 2025:
4.2in respect of all land in the area serviced by the Burra CWMS, an annual service charge of:
c)$441.00 per property unit on occupied rateable and non-rateable land; and
d)$332.00 per property unit on assessments of vacant rateable and non-rateable land.
4.3in respect of all land in the area serviced by the Eudunda CWMS, an annual service charge of:
a)$641.00 per property unit on occupied rateable and non-rateable land; and
b)$491.00 per property unit on assessments of vacant rateable and non-rateable land.

5. Imposed an annual service charge on all land in the townships of Terowie, Whyte Yarcowie, Hallett, Mt Bryan, Burra, Robertstown, Point Pass, Eudunda, Farrell Flat and Booborowie to which it provides or makes available the prescribed service of waste collection for the year ending 30 June 2025, of $257.00.

6.  For the purpose of reimbursing Council the amount contributed to the Northern and Yorke Landscape Region Board, adopted a rate in the dollar of $0.000108 for all rateable land (based on capital value) within the area of Council and the Northern and Yorke Landscape Region Board for the year ending 30 June 2025.

David J. Stevenson
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER