What your rates pay for

​Rates brochure 2019-20

The rates brochure shows you, at a glance, the key city shaping projects that your rates go towards at a glance.

Download the Your city, your rates 2019-20 brochure (PDF 1.4 MB) 

Services provided by City of Melbourne

The City of Melbourne also provides a wide range of services for residents, ratepayers, businesses and visitors.

These diverse services include:

• Parks and gardens
• Public health and safety
• Recreation and leisure
• Street cleaning and waste management
• Arts and cultural policy and programming
• Urban policy and design
• International and national connections
• Arts participation and activation
• Business
• City promotion and tourism
• Events
• Local laws compliance
• Visitor and resident information
• Research
• Building, development and planning
• Sustainable environmental management
• Property and assets
• Community services
• Roads, transport and infrastructure
• Information technology
• Customer relations
• Legal, governance and corporate
• Communications, media and publications.