Footy Chick wrote:Discussion in the office this morning was a colleague who has just received her council rates - City of Playford.
Her house is valued at $141k (according to the council) - and her yearly rates are $1200!
she said all she gets is the bins collected
and has to even pay extra if she wants her green bin emptied (not sure if any Playford rate payers can confirm)
....
I must admit I'm a bit surprised by this.
I think the green waste
was about $50 p. a. for the Playford area as per arrangement with NAWMA.
However, the council has been absorbing the green waste costs across its budget since last September. The service is now available across the board with no additional cost outside the Rates, and it looks likely that your colleague
could have got some money back pro-rata (if she was already using the service in 2014.)
http://playford.sa.gov.au/webdata/resou ... 20FAQs.pdf