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Somerset residents will pay an extra 1.5 per cent in rates for 2021-2022 after the council handed down its budget on Wednesday.
But Somerset Regional Council will operate at a small deficit of $100,000, with an aim to be in surplus by 2023.
Landowners rates will be impacted by the official state land valuation increases that will affect rate payers differently across the region for the upcoming financial year.
In addition, landowners will pay an extra 40 cents in rural fire brigade levies, which is heavily backed by rural brigades own fundraising measures.
Mayor Graeme Lehmann said the budget also included $41 million in infrastructure spending including major upgrades to Lowood-Minden Road and the Lowood/Fernvale recycled water pipelines.