Once again the hierarchy of the Shire of York has been asked questions that have answers the community will not be adequately informed of. (see below)
Unfortunately many Rural Local Governments are still sparse with the truth and make a habit out of keeping dark financial secrets that the community should be allowed to share- seeing that ratepayers pick up the tab.
Unfortunately many Rural Local Governments are still sparse with the truth and make a habit out of keeping dark financial secrets that the community should be allowed to share- seeing that ratepayers pick up the tab.
In York’s case definitive answers eventually come from official outside sources and can be uncomplimentary to say the least, but then the truth often hurts.
Here is the verity regarding the variance in domestic property rate-in-the-dollar valuations where readers can do the catastrophic calculations in the comfort of their own home in York
The City of Joondalup Gross Rental Value is charged at 5.3090 cents in the dollar on domestic properties within its Local Government Area.
The Shire of York Gross Rental value is charged at 11.8490 cents in the dollar on domestic properties within its Local Government Area.
That is roughly 2.23 times greater than the City of Joondalup- spelling double the financial trouble for Shire of York ratepayers.
The Median house price in the City of Joondalup is $510.000 with an annual capital growth rate of plus (+) 0.82% meaning a property (worth $510.000) increases in value by $4,182 every 12 months.
The Median house price in the town of York is around $300.000 with an annual capital growth depreciation of minus (-) 5.51%, meaning a property (worth $300.000) devalues by $1,653 every 12 months.
A 1000 m/2 block of domestic land in the City of Joondalup would fetch a guesstimated minimum of $700,000, the same in the York town-site, around $60,000.
The Valuer-General’s Office, within Landgate, revalued GRV property for the Shire of York that came into effect as of July 1, 2016.
Comparing the known valuations of domestic properties in the City of Joondalup- with Median house prices $210,000 greater, annual capital growth rate 6.33% greater, comparable land value nearly 11.8 times higher and rate valuation 2.23 times less than the Shire of York, even a government department could not screw things up that badly.
The Landgate GRV rating is not to blame. It is what the Shire of York calculates is the predicted revenue needed for budget requirements to fund council services-(and to service council debt which it tends not to mention.)
It is not how much your property is actually worth, otherwise you would be paying much less than Perth ratepayers.
As a simplification we calculate the rates payable on two properties, one in the City of Joondalup, one in the Shire of York, with their valuations exactly the same, $15,000 -GRV.
The City of Joondalup’s amount payable at 5.3090 cents in the dollar on $15,000 comes to $796.35.
The Shire of York’s amount payable at a total at 11.8490 in the dollar on $15,000 comes to $1,777.35, a massive differential of $981.00.
Add to this the average property devaluation of $1,653- you are financially negatively geared to the tune of $2,634 per annum.
There is no-way that York ratepayers get an additional $981.00 annual value from services provided by council, and its overall performance, than its suburban cousins in Craigie, Carine, Carlisle, Caversham, Clarkson, Coolbellup, Coolbinia and Currambine, Yanchep, Yangebup and Yokine, to name but a few.
The 6.54 cents in the dollar additional impost paid be York ratepayers, over double paid in most Perth suburbs is because of the Shire of York’s poor financial position of its own making, nothing more, nothing less, for which no-one will ever be held appropriately responsible.
The rates revenue received by the Shire of York make up around 50% of its gross revenue and 50 % of rates revenue goes on the staff salary component, their facilities and the day-to-day running costs of the Shire. So there is no obvious revenue savings, other than a reduction in overall shires costs.
Where any reduction in services supplied by the Shire would come from is anybody’s guess.
So the Shire of York ratepayer will be forced to carry this unconscionable financial burden for the forseeable future, maybe decades- to come.
How can the Shire of York improve its ratepayers fiscally vacant lot-in-life?
To consider tourism ‘Events’ as a panacea may bring little credibility to the entrepreneurial and economic skills evaluation of the Shire of York. If it checked news reports it would find that the WA Tourism Industry is the most poorly performing in Australia and filling empty Perth hotels first- is the number-one priority.
Additional local government loans and grants, and cheap State Treasury loans to purchase derelict buildings, is probably a thing of the past given the state’s poor financial situation.
The Nationals ability to assist rural towns and rural industry has gone at least until the next election, which is about the same time as Paul Martin’s, Paul Crewe’s and Suzie Haslehurst’s employment contracts are up.
The injection of Royalties for Regions funds bringing beautification and flower power to a rural retreat’s main street and paying for empty parking spaces surrounding a near desolate community facility, where the true meaning of ‘community’ is ignored, has gone.
It would appear that the Shire of York’s understanding of community means every individual domestic property ratepayer in the Shire pays an additional annual rate levy of $981.00 for the pleasure of enjoying the ambience of the its Forrest Bar & Café and funding whatever other financial mistakes you can think of.
Maybe former Councillor Tony Boyle, the President of the Shire of York during the catastrophic development of a hardly used Tavern, restaurant and convention centre, is selling Boyles Feedlot Operation for $2.5million to help repay this debt on behalf of the York community?
Any possible Royalties for Regions funding in future will require highly skilled local government administrators touting their very best ideation of high quality, local commercial/industrial opportunities to an extremely tough politician and arbiter in Alannah MacTiernan, the Minister for Regional Development.
The rules have changed and whether the Shire of York can come up with some outstanding concepts to attract government capital investment is another big unanswered question.
The current question -is will these particular questions be answered or have they alreay been answered here?
David Taylor.
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 12:52 PM
To: David Wallace
Cc: Paul Martin
Subject: FW: FW: YIN
To: David Wallace
Cc: Paul Martin
Subject: FW: FW: YIN
Gentleman,
On evaluating and comparing two official Rate Invoices for the 2017-2018 Financial Year there is a huge negative financial discrepancy between York’s domestic rates and those in Perth suburbs.
Have you got a satisfactory answer that you can communicate to the ratepayers of York in the foreseeable future? Probably not to highly unlikely!
I have also contacted Jenni Law from the DLGC politely requesting that she keeps a close eye on the “York Bitching” Facebook page and any links to the Shire of York, hopefully keeping her gainfully employed and away from the Labor Government’s public servant chopping block.
Regards
David Taylor.
On evaluating and comparing two official Rate Invoices for the 2017-2018 Financial Year there is a huge negative financial discrepancy between York’s domestic rates and those in Perth suburbs.
Have you got a satisfactory answer that you can communicate to the ratepayers of York in the foreseeable future? Probably not to highly unlikely!
I have also contacted Jenni Law from the DLGC politely requesting that she keeps a close eye on the “York Bitching” Facebook page and any links to the Shire of York, hopefully keeping her gainfully employed and away from the Labor Government’s public servant chopping block.
Regards
David Taylor.
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