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Stylish ride for good It was an impressive sight that turned heads on Hastings Street last Sunday morning as 250 motorbike riders in exquisite outfits thundered down the strip for the start of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR). The event, that will this year be held in more than 700 towns in more than 100 countries, has since its inception in 2012 raised funds for men’s health issues. The Sunshine Coast DGR, co-hosted by Scott Macken, of Scooter Style, Noosaville and Carl Burroughs had an almost record attendance this year. Carl said the local event raised more than $54,000 for men’s mental health and prostate cancer. The ride travelled from Hastings Street to The Apollonian Hotel at Boreen Point ending with a post-ride event featuring the Kitty Kats and a variety of competitions. For more information visit gentlemansride. com Continued page 10
Bill Grant cuts a fine figure on his Triumph in Hastings Street. Picture: ROB MACCOLL
Budget talk time ies on environment, sustainable transport and heritage. Delivered at a Special Meeting by acting corporate services director Trent Grauf councillors heard the draft budget had been prepared with “a back to basics focus,“ with reference to the recently adopted corporate plan as well as taking into account feedback from the 2022 liveability survey, bi-annual community satisfaction survey and 2022/23 budget consultation process. The meeting heard the budget had been extensively workshopped with councillors “with the primary consideration being to minimise,
as much as possible, the impact to ratepayers, while also taking into account the inflationary pressures on the costs to council of continuing to deliver the same levels of service the community has come to expect“. Mr Grauf said the challenge in calculating the rate lay in the distribution in land valuation increases with some much higher than others and in finding “the right balance between equity and reasonableness“. The budget excludes the finalisation of special rates and special charges levied on ratepayers in areas of Noosa Junction, Noosa Waters and Hastings Street and council was
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negotiating through business associations with the outcome to be finalised in coming weeks, he said. Mr Grauf said key cost changes to council included the 2023-34 election costs imposed by the Electoral Commission of Queensland, a new life guard contract for increased services and unprecedented economic conditions leading to inflationary pricing pressures impacting council in areas including fuel and logistics, construction materials, contracted services, the cost of wages as well as loan interest rate rises. Continued page 3
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The majority of Noosa property owners will face a rate rise of 5.5 per cent or about $90 a year coming in under the 7.4 per cent CPI rise, according to the draft Noosa Council 2023-24 Budget, released on Monday for a two week public consultation period. Others face greater rate rises related to state government land valuations which increased an average of more than 62 per cent, some increasing more than 100 per cent but others receiving only a 0-10 per cent increase. The net rate rise of 5.5 per cent comprises a 5.9 per cent general rate rise and 5.9 per cent waste levy with a freeze on the remaining lev-