What we know
There are 45 listed services; 44 have standalone 2026 budget lines. Council publishes FTE, activities and proposed projects. Its base-scenario operating result is available separately for General, Water and Sewer.
Make your choices. See the impact.
Start with Council’s published forecast. Choose where to raise income or change spending. The calculator keeps General, Water and Sewer money separate.
Operating changes affect the yearly budget. Projects mainly affect capital funding. Restricted funds cannot simply be used elsewhere.
OPERATING
Run the city
Rates and fees pay for staff, everyday services, maintenance and depreciation. Recurring savings or additional income can improve an operating result.
CAPITAL
Build and renew
Roads, pipes, buildings and facilities. Pausing a project changes its planned funding need — not automatically the annual operating result.
FUNDS
Money has rules
General, Water and Sewer must be viewed separately. Some waste, grants and developer funds are also restricted. Mixed funding needs verification.
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Select your year and target
Compare Council’s published fund forecasts with your scenario.
This slider applies when “Reduce annual costs by %” is selected. It uses Council's projected General Fund operating expense total.
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Income: rates, fees and grants
See published grant income, then experiment with rates and fees.
OPERATING INCOME + CAPITAL GRANTS
Where Council's money comes from
General Fund base scenario for 2026–27. These amounts are already included in the published forecast; do not add them a second time.
GENERAL FUND / FORECAST REVENUE—
Includes one-off capital grants. These amounts are already in Council’s forecast, not extra revenue from your choices.
| Income source | Forecast | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Rates and annual charges | — | — |
| User charges and fees | — | — |
| Operating grants and contributions | — | — |
| Capital grants and contributions For assets and projects; not regular service income | — | — |
| Other revenue and investment income | — | — |
EXCLUDING CAPITAL GRANTS—
Recurring-income perspective, before examining how other one-off amounts might affect the result.
Federal Financial Assistance Grants$8.67m entitlement · view detail ↓
$6.49m general purpose and $2.18m local roads in the 2026–27 entitlement. About $7.12m was advanced in June 2026, with $1.55m scheduled for payment in FY2027.
Do not add this to the income table: the timing of the entitlement, receipts and accounting recognition differs.
Commonwealth funding source ↗State and federal grants
The financial plan identifies operating and capital grants, but does not fully separate them by government. This calculator assumes no new grants beyond the published forecast. Council source ↗
1 · Rates — additional income
The 2026–27 Revenue Policy projects approximately $57.9m in ordinary rates. The selected-year calculation scales that starting base with the financial plan’s rates-and-annual-charges trend. This is an illustrative additional rate yield, not an IPART-approved SRV.
Provisional rate-revenue improvement $0 per year
For an individual property estimate: Council also offers an official Special Rate Variation impact calculator ↗ using property rating category and land value. That is Council's own information tool, not this site's policy position. Our calculator is neutral on any proposed SRV and tests expenditure and income options equally.
2 · Service fees — price and demand
Team income may contain grants, transfers and other items that cannot be increased by changing admission or service fees. Adjust the assumed share that is price-sensitive. Never assume all team income is fee revenue.
Apply a fee increase to services shownOnly service lines with positive reported income; Finance excluded
2026–27 fees and charges
Browse fee schedule ↗Find admission, venue hire, waste, parking, planning, water and sewer prices. Jump straight to the relevant pages in Council’s original schedule.
Fee changes are illustrative: service income is not the same thing as fee receipts, some fees are capped, and customer demand may change. Water and Sewer remain separate.
Use the fee adjustment inside individual service cards for different prices. Utility income is shown separately because the published team budget does not split Water and Sewer revenues. Demand change is a simple assumption, not an empirically measured price elasticity.
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Services: choose what changes
Reduce any service by a percentage. See its published income, expenses, staffing and likely funding restrictions.
2026 service catalogue · cost and incomePublished budget lines, before internal-charge reconciliation
Income—
Expense before depreciation—
Depreciation—
Net budget position*—
*Service income minus expenses and depreciation; totals are analytical only, not audited or reconcilable directly to the consolidated P&L. Central Financial Management separately records rates and other revenue.
Adjust multiple services together45 editable services currently shown
Adjust service-cost assumptions ▾
The catalogue does not separate each team's employee expenses, contracts, shared overheads or recoverable income. These percentages are user assumptions, not verified financial results.
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People: see the staffing impact
Staffing follows the service reductions you choose; select how changes could occur.
FTE in reduced services0.00
Potential FTE released0.00
Modelled actual departures this year0.00
Yet to be realised0.00
Indicative Local Government (State) Award 2026 exit provision
Severance: 25 weeksNotice: 5 weeksCombined allowance: 30 weeks
Assumes payment instead of working the notice period. Council employment arrangements, other applicable awards, accumulated leave, redeployment, job-search support, service history and individual circumstances can materially change the cost. Averages cannot determine employee entitlements.
Check the current NSW local government award ↗The service catalogue reports budgeted full-time equivalent positions, not verified headcount or salaries. This model estimates affected FTE automatically, then applies your achievable share and departure pathway. Natural attrition is limited by assumed vacancies arising. Redundancy cost is a rough Award 2026 proxy based on assumed completed service years, five weeks notice and salary proportion. No staff savings are counted twice. Protected-fund employment impacts are separated. This is neither an entitlement calculation nor industrial advice.
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Projects: choose what to defer
Postpone proposed capital projects or selected operating projects. Each shows gross cost, income, net cost and funding status.
Funding source versus project type: the filter is based on source-document descriptions, not audited fund-level project accounts. “General or other — funding unverified” does not certify General Fund funding. Project income is shown separately; it may include grants that disappear if a project is cancelled.
Postponing a grant-funded project may also remove its grant income. The model uses its published net budget rather than the headline gross cost. A deferral is not a permanent saving. Later years reuse 2026–27 service budgets without inflation adjustments.
What the calculator can — and cannot — tell us.
What we do not yet know
Exact avoidable costs, workforce salaries and entitlements by team, contract cancellation fees, legally required service minimums, how shared costs should unwind, and whether deferred projects would reduce future borrowing.
How to interpret results
This is an AI-assisted illustrative what-if model, not an audited, independently verified or expert-certified savings forecast, legal opinion, referendum or assessment of whether a particular service should be withdrawn. Reducing a service could affect safety, access, legal compliance and quality of life.
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2026 service catalogue ↗Four-year project program ↗Long-term financial plan ↗Revenue and borrowing policy ↗
Independent community publication. Extensive AI use for extraction, correlation, analysis, content and website production. A human expert provided direction and guidance, but has not independently verified or endorsed every calculation, figure or conclusion. Not endorsed by AlburyCity. Source figures come from published plans, not audited 2026–27 actual results. The figures may change as the Council budgets are updated. Personal scenario choices are not sent to a server by this page.