How Your Rates Are Spent

Why we pay Rates

 

Rates are Council’s basic source of income and help pay for the many necessary services and facilities provided by the City.  These include the paths you walk or ride along every day and the playgrounds and barbecue areas available for you and your families to use.  Your Council supports varied lifestyles, which we all appreciate in Mandurah.

 

But it is not only ratepayers who fund the City’s projects and activities.  Council aims to keep rates as reasonable as possible by raising around half its income from investments, fees and charges and Federal and State Government grants.