Would you chip in $9,000 to seal your street?

Latrobe City Council is considering whether to charge 14 Moe residents $127,500 to seal two roads.

At a meeting in late July, councillors voted to defer a decision on whether to have locals fund a quarter of the $510,000 needed to seal Pindari and Kandra roads.

But the policy of getting residents to chip in for road improvements is not new to Gippsland - Wellington Shire has been doing it since 2020.

Take a look at a video explainer below.