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About the Budget

The City of Greater Bendigo is preparing for its next Budget.

The Budget makes day-to-day life in Greater Bendigo possible, funding important services and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure valued by the community.

We invite your feedback on what priorities we should focus on to inform the 2024/2025 Budget.

Before you start the survey, we thought we should share some information about the Budget and how it’s put together.

So where does the money come from?

Money comes in from rates, user fees and government grants, which is then spent on services, maintaining our assets and building new facilities for our community.

This quick video provides more information.

City of Greater Bendigo Budget information

Financial challenges

It’s important to manage expectations when it comes to community spending.

The City used to have more money available to fund new projects. Unfortunately, across the last few years there has been a big difference between how much our income has grown, and how much our costs have increased. This means that each year it is harder to keep delivering the services the community needs with the funding that we have.

$33M gap between income growth and rising costs

Graph depicting $33M funding gap for current four-year period

The $33M total gap between income growth and rising costs across the current four-year period. Find out more about the City's financial challenges

Timeline

  • Timeline item 1 - complete

    Community engagement for 2024/2025 Budget opens

    Thursday, October 26, 2023

  • Timeline item 2 - complete

    Community engagement for 2024/2025 Budget closes

    Wednesday, November 22, 2023

  • Timeline item 3 - complete

    Detailed development of 2024/2025 Budget

    December 2023 to May 2024

  • Timeline item 4 - complete

    2024/2025 Budget considered for adoption at Council Meeting

    May 2024

Contact us

Have questions, want to learn more about a project, or present something to Councillors? Contact us below and we will be in touch:

Name Nathan Morsillo
Phone 1300 002 642
Email budgetenquiries@bendigo.vic.gov.au

Have your say all year round

We want to hear about matters that concern you all year round. It helps us make decisions.

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