The City of Hobart is seeking community feedback, ahead of next year's budget.
It's time to Have Your Say on the City of Hobart Budget for 2026-27, by participating in the survey below.
Your input will help inform the budget by ensuring:
- We understand community priorities
- A diverse range of ideas are considered ahead of key decisions;
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We can allocate resources are allocated in a way that benefits a broad cross-section of the Hobart community.
We want to hear from community groups, businesses and individuals!
How is the current budget spent?
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The City of Hobart is seeking community feedback, ahead of next year's budget.
It's time to Have Your Say on the City of Hobart Budget for 2026-27, by participating in the survey below.
Your input will help inform the budget by ensuring:
- We understand community priorities
- A diverse range of ideas are considered ahead of key decisions;
- We can allocate resources are allocated in a way that benefits a broad cross-section of the Hobart community.
We want to hear from community groups, businesses and individuals!
How is the current budget spent?
The City of Hobart adopted its 2025-26 budget on 30 June 2025. It promises to deliver a strong focus on balancing financial challenges, prioritising existing services and infrastructure, and delivering a range of projects that will position the City of Hobart as a thriving place to live, work, visit, study and invest. In this financial year, the City has committed to spending just over $180 million on delivering services for our community.
Some of the key changes to the new budget include:
- Rates revenue: 3.5 per cent increase
- Operating Budget: $183.9 million
- Underlying Surplus: $1 million
- Surplus: $16.5 million
- Australian & State Government grants totalling: $19.2 million
- Capital works program: $36.8 million
As well as delivering services, the budget allocated funds to manage the city effectively. This includes governance structures, employee services and training, information and technology.
The budget snapshot 2024-25 provides a summary of last year’s budget and the types of services and projects the City was funding.
2024-2025 City of Hobart Budget (PNG, 340KB)
How to have your say
Survey
18 September - 10 October
Fill out our brief survey and let us know how you feel the City of Hobart budget should be allocated. We want to hear from you to help ensure that next financial year's budget (2026-27) considers the needs of the community, local businesses and individuals.
The infographic below is designed to help get you thinking about how the City's current budget would look if it was reduced to $100. What do you think? Is it a fair share of the budget across the many services the City provides?
What will happen with my feedback?
All feedback will be assessed alongside the City of Hobart's strategic priorities and considered in the context of the overall budget. There are a number of factors that impact budget decision making, including:
- Inconsistency with the City’s priorities
- The submission is outside the scope of services provided by the City
- Further work is required to develop the submission for it to be ready for consideration
- Further analysis on the proposed costs may be required
- The proposal is beyond the financial capacity of the City.
The City of Hobart is committed to building inclusive, strong and healthy communities through the celebration of diversity and participation in community life by making services, programs and facilities accessible for people of all ages and abilities. This includes our community engagement processes.
Please call our Community Engagement Team on 0458 249 660 if you would like to speak about ways to make this project more suitable to your accessibility requirements.
