The Draft 2025-26 Annual Business Plan & Budget is open for community feedback until Thursday, 22 May 2025.
COUNCIL'S BUDGET FOR 2025-26
This year's Budget and Long-Term Financial Plan (LTFP) demonstrates the enduring commitment to financial sustainability embarked on by Council over recent years and reflects a strategic, responsible, and community-focused approach to financial management that is balanced with the need to maintain and improve essential services and infrastructure.
The development of the 2025-26 Budget was undertaken through an intensively collaborative process across numerous targeted workshops with the Elected Members. Ideas, suggestions and models were provided, discussed, shared, questioned, critiquedContinue reading
The Draft 2025-26 Annual Business Plan & Budget is open for community feedback until Thursday, 22 May 2025.
COUNCIL'S BUDGET FOR 2025-26
This year's Budget and Long-Term Financial Plan (LTFP) demonstrates the enduring commitment to financial sustainability embarked on by Council over recent years and reflects a strategic, responsible, and community-focused approach to financial management that is balanced with the need to maintain and improve essential services and infrastructure.
The development of the 2025-26 Budget was undertaken through an intensively collaborative process across numerous targeted workshops with the Elected Members. Ideas, suggestions and models were provided, discussed, shared, questioned, critiqued and tested by all attendees as part of progressing to a point where the Annual Business Plan & Budget and LTFP were considered ready to present to the community.
The proposed rate increase has been carefully considered to accommodate inflationary pressures, growth, and service sustainability. The minimum rate increase and adjustments to rate capping further support equitable distribution of the financial burden which fund the delivery of the much-needed services across the District.
Through prudent budgeting, ongoing debt recovery efforts, and a commitment to cost recovery in fees and charges, Council continues to strengthen its financial position.
Read the Draft 2025-26 Annual Business Plan & Budget and LTFP and tell us if it meets your expectations in the current environment. Your input will help us finalise the Plan.
Ways to participate:
- Participate online here at yoursayyankalilla.com.au
- Post your written submission to PO Box 9, Yankalilla SA 5203
- Email your submission to participate@yankalilla.sa.gov.au
- Participate in the Community Conversations
Staying the Course - Community Conversations
Drop-in style Q&A Conversations
YANKALILLA LIBRARY - TUESDAY 29 APRIL, 3.00 - 6.00pm
Drop-in style Q&A Conversations
SECOND VALLEY HALL - WEDNESDAY 14 MAY, 3.00 - 6.00pm
Public Community Meeting
DCY COUNCIL CHAMBERS - TUESDAY 20 MAY, 6.00 - 7.00pm
What is an Annual Business Plan & Budget and LTFP?
Each year, Council prepares an Annual Business Plan & Budget that describes the changes to the rates and overall budget for the coming financial year. It identifies Council’s financial resources and how they will be allocated to support the initiatives and operations detailed in the Plan. It includes:
- Revenue projections;
- expenditure forecasts; and
- funding allocations to various programs and projects.
The process of developing the Annual Business Plan & Budget involves reviewing and updating what we intend to deliver as part of working towards the DCY Strategic Community Plan: Vision 2030, Council's Long-Term Financial Plan 2025-35 and its Asset Management Plans.
The Long-Term Financial Plan aims to balance short-term priorities with long-term sustainability, ensuring prudent financial management and investment in the community’s future. It provides a strategic framework for Council’s financial management over an extended period, spanning 10 years. The LTFP:
Addresses the sustainability of Council’s finances;
considers future challenges and opportunities; and
outlines strategies for achieving financial stability and resilience.
What will we do with your feedback?
Council will consider the feedback given by the community at an Elected Member Forum in June 2025 before the final 2025-26 Annual Business Plan & Budget is presented to Council at its Meeting, also in June.
We will post the final 2025-26 Annual Business Plan & Budget on the District Council of Yankalilla website in July 2025.
Any questions? Ask them using the 'Questions' tool below. That way we can provide a response that everyone can read.
