In the Council meeting on 11 February 2025 (meeting timestamp 1:42:00 to 1:44:00) the Mayor spoke about the budget:
We’re banging on about spending a lot of money…So what you got tonight was a little bit of an entree of the debate that we’re going to have around the budget, because to do all of those things, we need to have the money for it…And therefore, what I encourage all of you watching tonight, and all of you who are here tonight, is to work with your ward councillors and work with this council…How can we make better use of our assets and our staff?…We have to be bold, and we have to take hard decisions in order to be able to finance the work that we want to do…I invite you all to participate in those discussions so we get a better budget out of it in the long run.
Streets Alive Yarra thanks the Mayor for speaking honestly about the budget, and for inviting residents to work with council to solve the issue. We offer the following proposal, refer to the attached PDF. As always, we’d be delighted to provide further detail or explanation of the themes raised in our work.
Emailed to councillors 16 February 2025. Published 16 February 2025.