Hi Everyone
My opinion of the proclamation is this.
(1) The proclamation only applies to 2016/2017 you never know there might be another for 2017/2018 we don’t know.
(2) Whatever your pre merge rating structure was, as adopted for the 2015/2016 rating year remains. What I mean by this is if you had a base amount in your residential category you cant change it to include a minimum. If you had a 70/30 split in your business to residential ratio you cant now change it to say 60/40. I don’t think a major change would be allowed (excluding any SVs already granted).
(3) Whatever your pre merge categories were they now apply to the new Council. This means that you would have a Council A Residential category and rate in $ and a Council B Residential rate in $ and so on.
When the revenue policy goes to the New Council for adoption it would include the pre merge Councils revenue policies that had been on display.
Happy to add my two cents. Please add yours as the more discussion the more likely we’ll have a good consensus on this matter.
Robert
