00:02A City Council weighing up having to turn down the lights.
00:07Well you look at the cost of electricity in relation to running our libraries, running
00:12our pools, the lighting of ovals at night for sporting events, things like that, for
00:17kids training out there, so all of these services may have to be reduced.
00:21Darwin City Council considering drastic service cuts and rate rises to deal with a planned
00:27hike in local government power prices due to start from July.
00:32The time that the lights are on may have to be reduced so that we meet our budget.
00:37We are unable to go into deficit so we have to cut services to meet our budget.
00:42The change to Council electricity tariffs, an anti-government budget measure announced
00:48last year, which some say have not been properly communicated to those impacted.
00:54We don't want to read about it in a media release.
00:56I think what we need is proper consultation with our councils.
01:00Remote communities could be hit by the changes worst of all, with local government leaders
01:07warning cuts to family and youth programs are already being discussed as possible ways
01:13to offset rising power prices.
01:16It's the people on the ground that actually will suffer.
01:20The Darwin City Council says the power price hikes will also make it more difficult.
01:25to support the Territory Government in its key election mandate, crime prevention.
01:31We provide the street lighting, the park lighting, the walkway lighting and if we can't have
01:37those lights on because we need to change service delivery levels then it directly affects the
01:42community.
01:43The Council wants the price plan to be deferred for at least a year.
01:48The NT Government did not respond by deadline to requests for comment.
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