We have prepared the draft Budget 2020/21 for the financial year 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Written submissions about the content of the draft Budget 2020/21 are invited in accordance with section 223 of the Local Government Act 1989.

Copies of the draft Budget 2020/21 are available from our website and Customer Service and Outreach Centres in Bairnsdale, Lakes Entrance, Mallacoota, Orbost, Omeo Paynesville, Bendoc, Buchan and Cann River.

Written submissions

Written submissions should be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer and received at the Corporate Centre, 273 Main Street, Bairnsdale, 3875.

Online submissions can be made through our website. Go to: www.eastgippsland.vic.gov.au/Your_Say. All submissions must be received by 12.00 pm on Friday 24 July 2020.

Anyone making a submission should indicate whether they wish to be heard in support of their submission.

Anyone wishing to be heard is entitled to appear in person, or by a person acting on their behalf, at a meeting of a Committee of Council comprising the whole of Council, with a quorum being five councillors, to be held from 1.00 pm on Tuesday 11 August 2020 at the Corporate Centre, Bairnsdale.

If restrictions in place as a result of COVID-19 does not allow for submitters to attend the meeting in person then alternate arrangements will be conveyed to each submitter wishing to be heard at the meeting.

After considering all submissions received Council will formally adopt the draft Budget 2020/21, which includes the declaration of rates and charges, with or without amendment, at the Council Meeting to be held at the Corporate Centre, Bairnsdale on Tuesday 25 August 2020 commencing at 6.00 pm.