Council Responsibilities

What the Council Does

The Council does a lot in the community. Some of these things are:

• Garbage collection
  
• Sewerage
  
• Looking after parks, gardens, and recreational areas
  
• Drinking water
  
• Public toilets
  
• Public library
  
• Sports facilities
  
• Maintaining roads
  
• Housing
  
• Looking after a cemetery

To do this the Council may need money, so each year they may set the rates. Rates are an amount that each house, farm and business must pay to the Council each year.

This money helps the Council to pay for supplying the services.