Draft budget open for consultation
OUR Draft Budget 2022/23 has been prepared and presented to local residents.
Our 2022/23 budget is based on a rate rise of 1.75 per cent, with a continued focus on striving for efficient, high-quality services and facilities for our community, along with delivering a superior capital works program.
Some highlights include:
- Advocacy for a new Swan Hill hospital and new bridges for Swan Hill and Tooleybuc
- Additional house lots to be released at Tower Hill
- New laser light show and other night-time activation at Pioneer Settlement
- Establishment and beautification of the McCallum Street footpath in Swan Hill
- Ultima North Rd, Ultima (reseal 3.6km)
- Boundary Bend – Kooloonong Rd, Boundary Bend (resheet 3.1km)
- Economic development initiatives to assist the business community
- The Empower Youth Initiative
- Community and events grants program
How to provide feedback on the Draft Budget 2022/23.
Have your say by 4pm, Friday, May 20, 2022
Submissions can be made online at www.swanhill.vic.gov.au, via email to council@swanhill.vic.gov.au or in writing addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Swan Hill
Rural City Council, PO Box 488, Swan Hill, 3585.
Community Development Fund and Event Support Fund – applications now open
ARE you or your community group looking for funding for your next local project or event, a new idea or to upgrade your facilities?
There are two great grant programs open now.
Council’s Community Support and Events Support funds are open until Monday, June 6.
Up to $5000 is available for projects like repairs or upgrades to community facilities, OHS or risk management, promoting local sustainability and for new equipment, programs and activities.
Up to $5000 is also available for new or emerging events, or existing events that provide significant economic or social benefit to the region.
Please get in touch with Council’s Grants team if you need help with your submission or the grant process.
Application forms and full guidelines are available at www.swanhill.vic.gov.au, the Swan Hill Region Information Centre and the Robinvale Resource Centre, or by calling 5032 3033.
Official Opening – Hope Aged Care
I HAD the pleasure recently of attending the new Hope Aged Care facility in Swan Hill.
A journey that council has been engaged with from the beginning – from the planning stages, to turning a sod in 2018 and to now, the official opening.
This incredible facility has a specialised memory support unit, and for those that know a little of our family’s story, you’ll know how tremendous I find this for our region.
My maternal grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for many years and as long as we could, she lived at home with us in Woorinen.
But, when the time came that mum and dad could no longer sustain the level of care required, the closest available care for someone suffering from this awful disease at that time, was Northaven in Kerang.
To have a memory support unit in Swan Hill is quite simply life changing for families going through this.
Although open for a mere 12 months, 55 residents now call Hope Aged Care home, what a credit to the team and the services Hope Aged Care offer.
Thank-you very much for the invite and asking me to say a few words at your wonderful facility
